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Book Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

Download or read book Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture written by Donald H. Shively and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book The Modernity of Tradition

Download or read book The Modernity of Tradition written by Lloyd I. Rudolph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-07-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition. Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.

Book Reflexive Modernization

Download or read book Reflexive Modernization written by Ulrich Beck and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.

Book Tradition  Conflict  and Modernization

Download or read book Tradition Conflict and Modernization written by Richard Maxwell Brown and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition, Conflict, and Modernization: Perspectives on the American Revolution aims to expand knowledge on the intellectual character of the Revolution, its relation to the trend of modernization, and its standing as a manifestation of social conflict. The book discusses the American revolution in national tradition; the collective action in England and America in 1765-1775, and back country rebellions and the homestead ethic in America in 1740-1799. The text also describes the perspective of modernization related to the American revolution, modernization, and human. Historians will find the book invaluable.

Book Tradition  Change and Modernity

Download or read book Tradition Change and Modernity written by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Cultural Traditions and Modernization

Download or read book Chinese Cultural Traditions and Modernization written by Miaoyang Wang and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tradition  Change  and Modernity

Download or read book Tradition Change and Modernity written by S. N. Eisenstadt and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1973-11-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oman Reborn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Pappas Funsch
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 2016-02-02
  • ISBN : 9781349567966
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Oman Reborn written by Linda Pappas Funsch and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sultanate of Oman is one of the few "good news" stories to have emerged from the Middle East in recent memory. This book traces the narrative of a little-known and relatively stable Arab country whose history of independence, legacy of interaction with diverse cultures, and enlightened modern leadership have transformed it in less than fifty years from an isolated medieval-style potentate to a stable, dynamic, and largely optimistic country. At the heart of this fascinating story is Oman’s sultan, Qaboos bin Sa’id, friend to both East and West, whose unique leadership style has resulted in both domestic and foreign policy achievements during more than four decades in office. Exploring Oman from a historical perspective, Funsch examines how the country’s unique blend of tradition and modernization has enabled it to succeed while others in the region have failed. Accounts of the author’s own experiences with Oman’s transformation add rich layers of depth, texture, and personality to the narrative.

Book Modernization of Indian Tradition

Download or read book Modernization of Indian Tradition written by Yogendra Singh and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

Download or read book Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture written by Donald Howard Shively and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tradition and Modernity

Download or read book Tradition and Modernity written by Jessie Gregory Lutz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tradition and Modernity

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Marshall
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Release : 2013-05-20
  • ISBN : 1589019822
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Tradition and Modernity written by David Marshall and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.

Book Tradition and Modernization in China and Japan

Download or read book Tradition and Modernization in China and Japan written by Peter R. Moody and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tradition and Modernization

Download or read book Tradition and Modernization written by Shri Krishna Srivastava and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modernity in Islamic Tradition

Download or read book Modernity in Islamic Tradition written by Florian Zemmin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of ‘society’ as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition. The fact that the classical term umma was a principal term used to conceptualize modern society suggests the convergence of discursive traditions in modernity, rather than a mere diffusion of European concepts.

Book Tradition Through Modernity

Download or read book Tradition Through Modernity written by Pertti J. Anttonen and published by Studia Fennica Folkloristica. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When studying social practices that are regarded as traditional, 'tradition' is usually seen as an element of meaning. Whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those who are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explicated or not. The individuals, groups of people and institutions that are studied may continue to uphold their traditions or name their practices traditions without having to state in analytical terms their criteria for traditionality. This cannot, however, apply to people who make the study of traditions their profession, especially those engaged in the academic field of the 'science of tradition,' a paraphrase given to folklore studies. Traditions call for explanation, instead of being merely described or used as explanations for apparent repetitions, reiterations, replications, continuations or symbolic linking in social practice, values, meaning, culture, and history. In order to explain the concept of tradition and the category of the traditional, scholars must situate its use in particular historically specific discourses -- ways of knowing, speaking, conceptualisation and representation -- in which social acts receive their meanings as traditional. This book argues that since the concepts of tradition and modern are fundamentally modern, what they aim to and are able to describe, report and denote is epistemologically modern, as that which is regarded as non-modern and traditional is appropriated into modern social knowledge through modern concepts and discursive means. Modernity cannot represent non-modernity without modern mediation, which therefore makes the representations of non-modernity also modern. Accordingly, the book deals with the modernness of objectifying, representing and studying folklore and oral traditions. The first section focuses on modern and tradition as modern concepts, and the conception of folklore and its study as a modern trajectory. The second section discusses the politics of folklore with regard to nationalism, and the role of folk tradition in the production of nation-state identity in Finland.

Book The Lion and the Jewel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wole Soyinka
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN : 9789783535916
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Lion and the Jewel written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: