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Religion and Modernity

Religion and modernity in a secular city: A public theology of  différance

Religion and modernity in a secular city: A public theology of différance

... individualised concept of self as a consumer of religious and cultural goods. This has become clear over the last few months in Europe in the whole debate around the wearing of the burka by Muslim women. A woman is ...

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The Enlightenment and Religion  The Myths of Modernity

The Enlightenment and Religion The Myths of Modernity

... congregation of the early 1730s, historians have yet to turn up evidence of popular, let alone democratic, Jansensism. If they had a significance disproportionate to their numbers then couldn’t one say much the same for ...

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Bankim and the Critique of European Modernity

Bankim and the Critique of European Modernity

... simultaneous restoration of pride in the Indian. Moreover he also took recourse to the logic and arguments of the various schools of Indian philosophy, especially Sankhya. Thus to call his discourse as “derivative” is ...

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Homeschooling as Reflexive Modernity

Homeschooling as Reflexive Modernity

... religious and some others who are not. But there are also homeschoolers who are religious but homeschool for reasons wholly unrelated to religion. Furthermore, the reasons parents begin homeschooling are not ...

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Taixu, Yogācāra and the Buddhist approach to modernity

Taixu, Yogācāra and the Buddhist approach to modernity

... to religion, Taixu presented his views under the rubric of “Buddhism for human life” (rensheng Fojiao 人生佛教 ; a term he introduced in 1928), 1 and later (from 1933), 2 “Buddhism for the human world” (renjian Fojiao ...

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Elites and modernity in Mozambique

Elites and modernity in Mozambique

... of modernity for the Mozambican elite has its roots in the colonial period, but came to fruition during the liberation struggle and ...of modernity, for the revolutionary elite, the term did not necessarily ...

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The Arabic language : a Latin of modernity?

The Arabic language : a Latin of modernity?

... Standard Arabic is directly derived from the language of the Quran. The Ara- bic language of the holy book of Islam is seen as the prescriptive benchmark of correctness for the use and standardization of Arabic. As such, ...

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Backpacking with a Prayer: Tradition and Modernity

Backpacking with a Prayer: Tradition and Modernity

... This study focuses on the phenomenon of Israeli backpacking as a function of traditional, observant, and secular population segments. We explored whether and to what degree backpacking features are related to the ...

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Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

... and religion), for it sees the latter as unconcerned 'with interpreting collective meanings, much less with tracing the moral textures and delicate emotional pathways by which individuals and groups come to be ...

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Nietzche, George Grant and the response to modernity.

Nietzche, George Grant and the response to modernity.

... intermingling religion and philoso­ phy, past and present, contemplating and reflecting upon the whole through the analysis and study of modernity and its ...

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Modernity and Sustainability

Modernity and Sustainability

... race, religion… This cataloguing permitted men were identified inside the society more for their productive roles then for their ...France. Modernity brought both these phenomena as, if men look for their ...

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Papinian mutability : Statius and early modernity

Papinian mutability : Statius and early modernity

... Looking at the Thebaid, one may first ask the question of why a reading of it would be important for either Buchanan or Grotius. To answer this question by simply stating that both scholars see the Thebaid through a lens ...

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The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain

The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain

... Liberal Modernity remains an effective and illuminating collection, of considerable interest to scholars researching empire, intellec-tual culture, state power or class in the Victorian ...and modernity ...

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‘Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio

‘Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio

... Insofar as European visitors wanted to uphold the power associated with mobility, masculinity and modernity, and the unequal relations between employer and employee, they were not always successful. The engraving ...

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Rome 1945 1975 : an archaeology of modernity

Rome 1945 1975 : an archaeology of modernity

... of modernity ‘into a system of grim, inexorable necessities and crushing routines’, 35 which caused a split between the modern human spirit and the modernized ...

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Historical sociology, modernity, and postcolonial critique

Historical sociology, modernity, and postcolonial critique

... ropean modernity as a structuring frame even when this is not explicitly ...European modernity to remain in the background and thus leave the problems associated with it ...

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Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception

Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception

... and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (1990) and in Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (1999), American art historian Jonathan Crary discusses crucial changes in the nature of ...

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RELIGION 170-0-20: Religion in Human Experience

RELIGION 170-0-20: Religion in Human Experience

... about religion, focusing on five specific religious traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and ...how religion is manifested in the lives of contemporary individuals and communities; how ...

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Modernity and Tradition in Shakespeare s Asianization

Modernity and Tradition in Shakespeare s Asianization

... Asia are put in a mutually reinforcing process by artists, critics and scholars who chart both entities in a great array of political and cultural topics that are across critical boundaries and conceptual domains. On the ...

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Young Women, Fashion, and Modernity in Taiwan

Young Women, Fashion, and Modernity in Taiwan

... The central question of this thesis is: ‘In the flux of tradition, modernity and global fashion trends, how do young Taiwanese women transform and interpret East Asian and Western fash[r] ...

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