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Note: Literaturangaben , This book presents the results of a joint meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences where renowned international scholars discussed the importance of education in an increasingly globalized world. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including immigration, education in developing countries, knowledge transfer, social, economic, cultural, and political conditions in global education, technology, communication, access to information and knowledge, as well as, bio-anthropological issues , This book presents the results of a joint meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences where renowned international scholars discussed the importance of education in an increasingly globalized world. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including immigration, education in developing countries, knowledge transfer, social, economic, cultural, and political conditions in global education, technology, communication, access to information and knowledge, as well as, bio-anthropological issues

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Personal reflections in the mirror of Halʹevy and Weber , Salvation, secularization, and de-moralization , The Pentecostal gender paradox: a cautionary tale for the sociology of religion , Feminism and the sociology of religion: from gender-blindness to gendered difference , Melancholia, utopia, and the psychoanalysis of dreams , Georg Simmel: American sociology chooses the stone the builders refused , Transformations of society and the sacred in Durkheim's religious sociology , Classics in the sociology of religion: an ambiguous legacy , Individualism, the validation of faith, and the social nature of religion in modernity , The origins of religion , Secularization extended: from religious "myth" to cultural commonplace , Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena , The social process of secularization , Patterns of religion in Western Europe: an exceptional case , The future of religious participation and belief in Britain and beyond , Religion as diffusion of values. "Diffused Religion" in the context of a dominant religious institution: the Italian case , Spirituality and spiritual practice , The Renaissance of community economic development among African-American churches in the 1990s , Hell as a residual category: possibilities excluded from the social system , Acting ritually: evidence from the social life of Chinese rites , Moralizing sermons, then and now , Health, morality and sacrifice: the sociology of disasters , Contemporary social theory as it applies to the understanding of religion in cross-cultural perspective , The return of theology: sociology's distant relative , Epilogue: toward a secular view of the individual , Acting ritually: evidence from the social life of Chinese rites , Personal reflections in the mirror of Halʹevy and Weber , Health, morality and sacrifice: the sociology of disasters , Contemporary social theory as it applies to the understanding of religion in cross-cultural perspective , The return of theology: sociology's distant relative , Epilogue: toward a secular view of the individual , The Pentecostal gender paradox: a cautionary tale for the sociology of religion , Feminism and the sociology of religion: from gender-blindness to gendered difference , Melancholia, utopia, and the psychoanalysis of dreams , Georg Simmel: American sociology chooses the stone the builders refused , Transformations of society and the sacred in Durkheim's religious sociology , Classics in the sociology of religion: an ambiguous legacy , Individualism, the validation of faith, and the social nature of religion in modernity , The origins of religion , Secularization extended: from religious "myth" to cultural commonplace , Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena , The social process of secularization , Patterns of religion in Western Europe: an exceptional case , The future of religious participation and belief in Britain and beyond , Religion as diffusion of values. "Diffused Religion" in the context of a dominant religious institution: the Italian case , Spirituality and spiritual practice , The Renaissance of community economic development among African-American churches in the 1990s , Hell as a residual category: possibilities excluded from the social system , Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 20, 2007). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.

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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index. - Description based on print version record , PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING RELIGIOUS CHANGEChristianity and the first peoples: some second thoughts , Purity and pluralism: syncretism as a theological problem among Indonesia's Muslims and Christians , PART TWO: MISSION ENCOUNTERSBroken tongues and foreign hearts: the religious frontier in early nineteenth-century South Africa and New Zealand , Outpost in Papua: Anglican missionaries and Melanesian teachers among the Maisin, 1902-1934 , Setting the record straight: new Christians and mission Christianity , Tjukurpa Palyathe Good Word: Pitjantjatjara responses to Christianity , PART THREE: TRANSFORMING CHRISTIANITYExperiencing Spirit: religious processes of interaction and unification in Aboriginal Australia , Durawall of faith: Pentecostal spirituality in neo-liberal Zimbabwe , PART FOUR: ASSIMILATING CHANGEHouse of longing: missionary-led changes in Heiltsuk domestic forms and structures , Changing concepts of embodiment and illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg mission

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