ISBN:
9783319097404
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 277 pages)
,
illustrations (some color)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context
Parallel Title:
Print version The Dynamics of Transculturality : Concepts and Institutions in Motion
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Cross-cultural studies
;
Asia ; Civilization
;
Europe ; Civilization
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People's Republic of China, the book provides a template for the study of transcultural dynamics over time. Besides the epochal range, the papers in this volume illustrate the thematic diversity assembled under the umbrella of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context.' Drawing from both the humanities and social sciences, stretching across several world areas and centuries, the book is an interdisciplinary work, aptly reflected in the collaboration of its editors: a historian and political scientist.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Transcultural Perspective; 2 Concepts and Institutions in Religion and Politics; 2.1 Religion and Politics as Core Realms in Human Societies; 2.2 Methodological Considerations via History and Politics; 3 The Dynamics of Transculturality; 3.1 Studying Reciprocity and Escaping Centrism; 3.2 Re-examining Contested Concepts; 3.2.1 Regarding the Movement; 3.2.2 Regarding the Transported; 3.2.3 Regarding the Actor; 4 A Note on the Sequence of Papers; 4.1 Politics and the Dynamics of Transculturality
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2 Religion and the Dynamics of TransculturalityBibliography; Part I: Conceptual Considerations; Marxism, Modernity, and Revolution: The Asian Experience; Bibliography; From Religious Contact to Scientific Comparison and Back: Some Methodological Considerations on Comparative Perspectives in th...; 1 Point of Departure; 2 Correspondences Between Object- and Metalanguage; 3 The Operation Called Comparison; 3.1 The Frame of Reference; 3.2 Construction of Types; 3.3 The Science of Religion as a Sociology of Knowledge; 4 Religious Semantics; 4.1 Conceptual Considerations
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2 Distinction Between Religious Communication and Sacralization4.3 Typology of Religiously Motivated or Connotated Attitudes Toward the World; 5 Societal and Social Differentiation and Forms of Religious Institutionalization; 5.1 The Socio-Cultural Evolution and Societal Differentiation; 5.2 Religion and Social Differentiation; 5.2.1 Religious Roles; 5.2.2 Religio-Political Institutions; 5.3 Types of Organized Religion; 5.3.1 The Religious Group; 5.3.2 Religious Organizations; 5.3.3 Religious Movements; 6 The Interplay of Religious Semantics with Social and Societal Differentiation
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Emergence of Regional Religious Fields and a Global Religious Field7.1 Internal Formation of the Religious Field; 7.2 Outward Demarcation of the Religious Field; Conclusion: On the Way to Transculturality; Bibliography; Part II: Politics and the Dynamics of Transculturality; Hippodamos and Phoenicia: On City Planning and Social Order in a Transcultural Context; 1 Introduction; 2 Hippodamos: Political Philosopher and Town Planner; 3 Greek Town Planning in the Classical Period; 4 Phoenician Town Planning in the Classical Period; 5 Mediterranean Town Planning from a Transcultural View
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Final ThoughtsBibliography; A Forgotten Landscape of the Forms of Government: The Case for the Counterfactual History of Political Theory; 1 Sites of Contestation; 2 The Open-Ended Range of Applicability; 3 Answering the First Question of Politics; Military Intelligence and Early Modern Warfare: The Dutch East India Company and China 1622-1624; 1 Introduction; 2 Military Intelligence Practices in Early Modern Europe; 3 Military Intelligence During the Planning and Execution of the VOC´s China Campaign; 4 The Campaign Lost: Obstructed Information Flows and Compromised Agents; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
`Cultural Citizenship´ and Media Representation in India: Towards a Trans-Policy Approach
Note:
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