Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Author: Yorim Spoelder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100940315X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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'Greater India' was a transimperial, Indocentric research paradigm that informed the colonial recovery of the ancient past in Central and Southeast Asia. Ancient India was postulated as the fount of an expansive classicism – an actor in world history on a par with ancient Greece and Rome. Under the Greater India movement, the scholarly quest for 'India in Asia' became tied to anti-colonial, pedagogical, nationalist and Asianist agendas. Yet although it provided a potent anti-colonial imaginary, the movement also bolstered visions of Indian exceptionalism and energized Hindu nationalist ideas of India as a civilizing, colonizing power. Speaking directly to debates that define and divide India today, this is essential reading for those interested in the legacies of Orientalist scholarship and interwar visions of Indian internationalism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author: Tim S. Perry
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889206473
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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It is commonly assumed that all religions are essentially alike, that they are all common members of the genus Religion. But what if religions are not fundamentally similar after all? What if, on the contrary, it is better to presuppose a radical difference among the world’s various religious communities, with each faith being defined by different beliefs, different practices, different world views, and different ways of life? Radical Difference: A Defence of Hendrik Kraemer’s Theology of Religions explores the implications of this presupposition by examining the pioneering work of Dutch Reformed theologian and missionary Hendrik Kraemer. Perry shows that a critical reappropriation of Kraemer by contemporary Christian theology of religions can only help those Christians, especially evangelical Protestants, who find themselves equally unsatisfied with the various pluralisms and traditional responses, whether optimistic or skeptical, currently available. Increased global migration and technological advances have brought us closer together than ever before. At the same time, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions throughout the world have awakened us to issues of interreligious tolerance and cooperation. This book recognizes and addresses the impact differing religious beliefs, practices and world views have on our lives.

Author: Albert Tzeng
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 981478673X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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This book explores the interconnection between geopolitical context and the ways this context frames our knowledge about Asia, highlighting previously neglected cause-effect relations. It also examines how various knowledge institutions promote and shape Asian Studies. The authors seek to explain why Asian Studies and its subfields developed in the way they did, and what the implications of these transformations might be on intellectual and political understandings of Asia. The book not only builds on the current debates on the decolonization and de-imperialization of knowledge about Asia; it also proposes a more multifaceted view rather than just examining the impact of the West on the framing of Asian Studies.

Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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A wide range of sources - by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, and missionaries - documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century.

Author: Willem Otterspeer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004610073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415

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Author: Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer
Publisher: DPSP
ISBN: 9090339620
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531

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This book contains the first-time English translation of the main work of Paul Scholten, the General Method of Private Law. The introductory article analyzes Scholten’s view in contrast with a particular combination of Comte’s centralizing optimization program and Neo-Kantian Idealism, which is still dominant in political philosophy. Comte’s sociology and Scholten’s Jurisprudentialism are not presented here in the well-known opposition of Sein and Sollen, but by showing how their different views on scientific method are grounded in opposite views on the philosophical, political and ethical meaning of human action. Neo-Kantianism adheres to Comte’s view, while Scholten adheres to the Aristotelian view, as it had developed in Christianity and had provided the protestant foundation of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. Comte attacks Aristotelian Protestantism, which he characterizes as the metaphysical stage of the Western development of state: negative, protestant, constitutional and juridical. Scholten’s views oppose the inherent trend towards centralization in Comte’s program to cover all aspects of optimization for the best of all, ever better. That branch of political philosophy not only has shaky foundations in scientific method but also has reached its boundaries of operational applicability. Scholten’s views oppose the emphasis in Comte’s program on a unified general will and stress the need for accepting the existence of deeply conflicting philosophies of life in society. This has consequences for the organization of democracy regarding independence of specialized agencies, the role of civil society and the voting system. It not just holds for the state level but also for Unions and supranational organizations. The legal system plays a key role in this development. Scholten’s views and activities have had great posthumous impact for the reconstruction of society and politics in the first years after World War II. They contributed to the collaboration between the different denominations in the Protestant church, opened up the social-democratic party to different denominations and helped develop the cooperation of different Christian parties, leaving the cleavages of the pre-war political spectre behind. Authors and open reviewers who have contributed to the DPSP project, have a broad international background, apart from the Netherlands: Finland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, United States and Indonesia. Indonesia plays a substantial role in the book, as Scholten played a main role in setting up the legal education system in what was then the Netherlands Indies. Chapters 1. Paul Scholten, Aristotelian Protestantism in Dutch Legal Philosophy. Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer (p.1) 2. Paul Scholten’s Life. Rogier Chorus, Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer, Jacqueline Schoonheim (p.28) 3. General Method of Private Law. English translation of the First Chapter of the General Volume of the Asser-serie on Dutch Civil Law, written by Paul Scholten. Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer, Marjanne Termorshuizen-Arts, Cassandra Steer, Paul Scholten (p.37) 4. Jumping Judges, Judicial Discovery of Law. Niels van Manen (p.225) 5. From a Legal Order to a Legal System, Scholten’s Contribution to a Theory of Legal Change. Jean-Louis Halpérin (p.249) 6. Law and Context, Scholten’s Open System of Law and Legal Harmonisation. Jaakko Husa (261) 7. Case-Based Reasoning and Formulary Procedure, A Guard against Individual Emotions. Marco Gardini (p.287) 8. Kelsen and Scholten on Reason and Emotion in Solving Cases. Nuno M.M.S. Coelho (p.315) 9. Trembling Necessity and Analogy, Juridical Reason as Judgment by the Similar. Luciano de Camargo Penteado (p.334) 10. Paul Scholten and the Founding of the Batavia Rechtshogeschool. Upik Djalins (p.354) 11. In Search of Scholten’s Legacy, The Meaning of the Method of Rechtsvinding for the Current Indonesian Legal Discourse. Shidarta (p.396) 12. Scholten’s Reflections on Judge’s Practices, An Apology of the Mystery of the Legal Craft. Robert Knegt (p.443) 13. The Reception of the Work of Paul Scholten in the Netherlands. Marjanne Termorshuizen-Arts (p.465) 14. Re-Appraising Paul Scholten, His Influence on the Development of a National Legal System in Indonesia. Tristam P. Moeliono (p.495)

Author: Jennifer L. Foray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107015804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands is a study of empire, occupation and decolonization, and uncovers Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Author: Saroja Bhate
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The Book Is A Compilation Of Seminar Papers In Which Scholars Of India As Well As Abroad Have Discussed At Length The State Of Indology In The Past, Present And Future. Indology Which Has A History Of A Little Over Two Hundred Years, Started And Nurtured In The West. It Arrived In India Along With A Few Other Imported Ideologies With The Package Of Modern Higher Education During The Pre-Independence Period. Since Then, A New Current Of Indigenous Indology Joined The Main Current. Some Papers Of The Volume Dealt With The Fundamental Theme Of Indology And Some Devoted To The Status Reports On Indology In Diferent Countries Such As Usa, Brazil, Russia, Poland, China And Australia. The Topics Selected For The Seminar Offered A Wide Range Of Problems Based On Indology Which Is Not Embracing All Aspects Of Indian Culture. This Collection Will Enable Researchers Of India And West To Work Together Rather Than Against Each Other.

Author: Jost Dülffer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230306489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world.