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Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities
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Originally published over the past 20 years, the 38 papers collected in this two-volume set represent an overview of the core concerns of Eisenstadt (emeritus, sociology, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) during this period axial civilizations (what Max Weber called the ""world religions"") and modernities.
| כותר |
Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities / S. N. Eisenstadt. |
|---|---|
| מוציא לאור |
Leiden : BRILL |
| שנה |
2003 |
| הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. English |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Contents Preface List of Permissions 1. Introduction: Comparative Studies and Sociological Theory-From Comparative Studies to Civilizational Analysis: Autobiographical Notes 2. The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis 3. Social division of labor, construction of centers and institutional dynamics: A reassessment of the structural-evolutionary perspective 4. Cultural Programs, the Construction of Collective Identities and the Continual Reconstruction of Primordiality 5. Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions 6. Comparative Liminality. Liminality and Dynamics of Civilizations 7. The Axial Age: The emergence of transcendental visions and the rise of clerics 8. Cultural traditions and political dynamics: the origins and modes of ideological politics 9. Transcendental vision, center formation and the role of intellectuals 10. Utopias and Dynamics of Civilizations: Some concluding observations 11. This-worldly transcendentalism and the structuring of the world: Weber's ""Religion of China"" and the Format of Chinese History and Civilization 12. Some Observations on the transformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan 13. A Short Comparative Excurse on the (Theravada) Buddhist Civilizational Format and Historical Experience 14. Cultural Traditions, Conceptions of Sovereignty and State Formations in India and Europe 15. The Crystallization of Christian Civilizations in Europe 16. The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal History 17. Civil Society, Public Sphere, the Myth of Oriental Despotism and Political Dynamic in Islamic Societies 18. Japan and the multiplicity of cultural programmes of modernity 19. Some Comparative Indications about the Dynamics of Historical Axial and non-Axial Civilizations 20. The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization 21. Multiple Modernities in an Age of Globalization 22. Multiple Modernities 23. Barbarism and Modernity: the Destructive Components of Modernity 24. Origins of the West. The origins of the West in recent Macrosociological Theory. The Protestant Ethic Reconsidered 25. Frameworks of the Great Revolutions: Culture, Social Structure, History and Human Agency 26. The Sectarian Origin of Modernity 27. The Breakdown and Transformation of Communist Regimes 28. The First Multiple Modernities: The civilization of the Americas 29. Mirror Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity 30. Israeli Politics and the Jewish Political Tradition: Principled Political Anarchism and the Rule of the Court 31. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy 32. Center Formation and Protest Movements in Europe and the U.S.A.: Comparative Perspective 33. The Structuring of Social Protest in Modern Societies: The Limits and Direction of Convergence |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (2 volumes, 1074 pages) |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
997010700466805171 |
תצוגת MARC
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