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Author: Reinhard Bendix
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-06
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 100067553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmbattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole.
Author: R. J. Werblowsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 147428096X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst delivered in 1974 as one of the Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, this book considers and compares traditional or pre-modern and post-traditional or post-modern religions. It assesses the processes as well as the images of change in various cultures – principally Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism – and examines how these religions handle the dialects of rejection, appropriation and integration.
Author: Reinhard Bendix
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Raghuramaraju
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-12-06
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0199088365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju argues that modernity in the West involved disinheriting the pre-modern, and temporal ordering of the traditional and modern. It was ruthlessly implemented through programmes of industrialization, nationalism, and secularism. This book underscores that India did not merely the Western model of modernity or experience a temporal ordering of society. It situates this sociological complexity in the context of the debates on social theory. The author critically examines various discourses on modernity in India, including Partha Chatterjee’s account of Indian nationalism; Javeed Alam’s reading of Indian secularism; the use of the term pluralism by some Indian social scientists; and Gopal Guru’s emphasis on the lived Dalit experience. He also engages with the readings on key thinkers including Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.
Author: Leonard Plotnicov
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0822975815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume represent trends in social stratification studies undertaken in major culture areas of the world. The empirical data of the chapters are set with special reference to the dynamics of processes within these diverse traditions and heritages as sources of comparison with one another and with the experiences of western societies.
Author: Reinhard Bendix
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780520027619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how states and civil societies interact in their formation of a new political community, focusing on authority patterns and relations established between individuals and states during nation- building. For students and scholars of political science, sociology, history, and comparative studies. Originally published in 1964 by John Wiley and Sons, with a 1977 enlarged edition published by University of California Press, this latest enlarged edition includes an introduction by the author's son. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Mohammed Moussa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-10-30
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1538150956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contest is afoot in Muslim discourses around the world in the twenty-first century. Prevalent norms and acts are subject to competing motivations, trends and forces. The image of a monolithic Islam is thus wholly inadequate to identify and interpret the different expressions of Muslim thought and practice in their specific yet connected contexts. This book proposes competing and persuasive perspectives for interpreting what Muslims say, do and think in collective settings or in the light of common frames of reference. The chapters contained in this book reflect a diversity of disciplines and interests. Nonetheless, a common thread of the preoccupation with meanings in context unites the contributors and the approaches to their chosen examples. Islam is not a discrete category that is taken for granted. Instead, the cacophony of voices in the Muslim world situated in specific contexts, variously national, regional or global, is allowed to inform each chapter. Here one encounters contemporary Muslims participating in discourses with a contested character that create opportunities to augment or question orthodox dictates or transmit or alter existing beliefs and practices. What emerges are nuanced portraits of contemporary Muslim thought and practice that reveal a far from monolithic Islam to which all things Islamic can be reduced.
Author: Michael Adas
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781566398329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces readers to the cross-cultural study of ancient and classical civilizations. The book is divided into two sections, the first examining the ongoing interaction between ancient agrarian and nomadic societies and the second focusing on regional patterns in the dissemination of ideas.
Author: William W. Quinn Jr.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997-02-06
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1438416652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Only Tradition examines the first principles of the perennial philosophy or ancient wisdom tradition as expressed in the writings of René Guénon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, and the current breakdown of value, meaning, and culture in the West due to the decline of these principles since the thirteenth century. The book further focuses on the relationship or reciprocity between the first principles and Western and Eastern culture, and discusses the future development of a homogenous, worldwide system of belief that would restore value and meaning to people's lives. Quinn argues for a return to the first principles inherent in the perennial philosophy, which constitute the sacred primordial Tradition and which inform all the world's great religious traditions. His book makes an excellent introduction to this powerful current of European esoteric thought—primordial tradition.
Author: Norman Provizer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1351319639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
