Author: Chee Meow Seah
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Terence Chong
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812303162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle class, and mass consumption in Southeast Asia. This book concludes by profiling the characteristics of Southeast Asian modernity.

Author: Mun Cheong Yong
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Asian Traditions and Modernization studies various aspects of change in Singapore and explores the ways in which tradition has shaped and moderated the process of modernization. Employing a multi-faceted approach that covers history, religion, science, ethnic relations and language, the book looks in depth at a country which has witnessed rapid modernization and yet at the same time desires to preserve cultural values. Because tradition and modernization are relative and open-ended concepts, traditional values can be modern in their orientation and conversely, modern societies can be traditional in their practices. The focal concern of the book is how these terms can be best and fully understood. This reissue features a new preface by the author.

Author: Joseph B. Tamney
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110814684
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: C. J. Wan-ling Wee
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971693923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Weiming Tu
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674160873
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace--in industrial East Asia.

Author: Satoshi Abe
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811243913
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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This book explores the unfolding of modernity in the greater Asia that uniquely takes shape at different times and places, with a particular attention to a common thread that has been at heart of the development: religion. The status of religion has been relegated in the Western modernity to such that its effects be restricted within the private realm and not be exerted in the public or one's rationality. This edited volume sheds light on the multifarious forces of religion both in the past and present that have impacted on the essential aspects of modern society — aspects in which one does not usually have recourse to religion in the West — from science and technology, politics, and to identity in Asia. Interdisciplinary approaches in the volume allow one to broadly examine religious practices within Asian contexts, thus enabling to reevaluate the concept, scope, and gamut of so-called religion.

Author: Sang-Jin Han
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004415491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity criticizes the paradigm of Asian Value Debate and defends a balance between individual empowerment and flourishing community for human rights in the context of global risk society from an enlightened post-Confucianism perspective.

Author: Jeffrey Herf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521338332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity.

Author: Ralph Schroeder
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349268364
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization: they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a new geopolitical order. The essays in this volume develop Weberian concepts and apply his comparative-historical method to deepen our understanding of these problems. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western and Eastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic states.