Culture and Civilization: Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity, Irving Louis Horowitz

Автор: Aldo J. Regalado
Название: Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero
ISBN: 1496813030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496813039
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Описание: Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It’s Superman!” Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and capitalism that transformed the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. Reeling from these exciting but rapid and destabilizing forces, Americans turned to heroic fiction as a means of explaining national and personal identities to themselves and to the world. In so doing, they created characters and stories that sometimes affirmed, but other times subverted conventional notions of race, class, gender, and nationalism.The cultural conversation articulated through the nation’s early heroic fiction eventually led to a new heroic type—the brightly clad, super-powered, pro-social action heroes that first appeared in American comic books starting in the late 1930s. Although indelibly shaped by the Great Depression and World War II sensibilities of the second-generation immigrants most responsible for their creation, comic book superheroes remain a mainstay of American popular culture.Tracing superhero fiction all the way back to the nineteenth century, Regalado firmly bases his analysis of dime novels, pulp fiction, and comics in historical, biographical, and reader response sources. He explores the roles played by creators, producers, and consumers in crafting superhero fiction, ultimately concluding that these narratives are essential for understanding vital trajectories in American culture.

Автор: Liu
Название: Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self
ISBN: 0415874866 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415874861
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Описание: As both youth and the Internet hold the potential to inflict far-reaching economic, social, cultural, and political changes, this book fulfills a pressing need for a systematical investigation of the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China.

Автор: Moriyama Mikihiro
Название: Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java
ISBN: 9814722995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814722995
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Описание: Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java traces the development of modern printed books written in Sundanese, the dominant language in West Java, Indonesia, and the mother tongue of about 30 million people.

Starting with the 'discovery' of Sundanese by Europeans in the early 19th century, Mikihiro Moriyama follows the developments in the ensuing century when a small group of Dutch scholars and colonial officials reshaped the language and its literature over the next one hundred years. Schools taught Sundanese, and printed materials based on western concepts began to influence indigenous writing and oral tradition. The imposition of European standards of literary aesthetics shaped a modernity that rejected traditional knowledge in favour of rational and empirical paradigms. Interest in traditional poetry and its mythologies declined, and new forms of prose, including novels, captured the attention of the reading public. These materials promoted useful knowledge and morality, and encouraged deference and loyalty towards colonial authority.

Early in the 20th century, the establishment of the Commissie voor de Inlandsche School- en Volkslectuur (Committee for Indigenous Schoolbooks and Popular Reading Books), a government-subsidised institution, provided the growing number of literate people in the Indies with 'good' and 'appropriate' reading materials. Its development marked the end of an era when Sundanese writing competed with Western-style schools and publications, and signalled the triumph of the new colonial modernity.

Автор: Stephen H Jones, Rebecca Catto, Tom Kaden
Название: Science, Belief and Society: International Perspectives on Religion, Modernity and the Public Understanding of Science
ISBN: 1529206944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529206944
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Описание: This wide-ranging book critically reviews the ways in which religious and non-religious belief systems interact with scientific methods, traditions and theories. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the United States, the book shows how debates about science and belief are firmly embedded in political conflict, class, community and culture.

Название: Culture and Civilization
ISBN: 1138521779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138521773
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Описание: Intellectual activity in the twentieth century took place largely under the banner of science and society

Название: Culture and Civilization
ISBN: 1138521787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138521780
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Описание: This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new, to raise methodology into historiography

Название: Culture and Civilization
ISBN: 1138521795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138521797
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Описание: This volume of Culture and Civilization focuses on cosmopolitanism, the global polity, and political ramifications of globalization

Название: Culture and Civilization
ISBN: 141284973X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412849739
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Описание: This volume of Culture and Civilization focuses on cosmopolitanism, the global polity, and political ramifications of globalization

Автор: Andrew Targowski, Bernard Han
Название: Chinese Civilization in the 21st Century
ISBN: 1633219607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781633219601
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: This is for reflective practitioners, for people wishing to inquire into what is involved in thinking "in the moment" when encountering unique, "first-time" events. It is also about complexity considered as a third realm of mysterious events subsisting between those we call problems which we can solve by rational thought, and those we call ineffable which we cannot at all describe in words

Название: (il)liberal europe: islamophobia, modernity and radicalization
ISBN: 041578672X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415786720
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Описание: With a spiral of co-radicalization fed by the politics of fear threatens to entrench hostility towards Muslims in European societies, (Il)liberal Europe: Islamophobia, Modernity and Radicalization examines the complex landscape of contemporary European identity politics from a new, challenging perspective.

Автор: Natalie J. Doyle, Irfan Ahmad
Название: (Il)liberal Europe: Islamophobia, Modernity and Radicalization
ISBN: 0367220504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367220501
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Описание: As co-radicalization threatens to entrench hostility towards Muslims in European societies, this book examines the complex landscape of contemporary European identity politics from a challenging new perspective. This book was originally published as a special issue of Politics, Religion & Ideology.

Автор: Jeffrey Samuels, Justin Thomas McDaniel, Mark Michael Rowe
Название: Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
ISBN: 0824858557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824858551
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Описание: This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes. The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a “new asceticism,” while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes—looking backward, forward, inward, and outward—reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country.