Multiple Modernities

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351504270
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Antropologia

How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this era of globalization? What, in short, is the nature of modernity? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to Multiple Modernities.Following the theme in an earlier work edited by Shmuel Eisenstadt, Public Spheres and Collective Identities, this book challenges conventional notions of how the world has changed politically, socially, and economically. The authors consider the meaning of modernity in contexts as different as communist Russia, modern India, the Muslim world, Latin America, China and East Asia, and the United States. Miscegenation, transnational migration, technological developments, and changing communications have shifted the ground on which theories of society were once built; political system, diaspora groups, religion, and ""classical"" theories of modernity have to be reconsidered in a new context.Authors and chapters include: S.N. Eisenstadt, ""Multiple Modernities""; Bjrn Wittrock, ""Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition""; Johann P. Arnason, ""Communism and Modernity""; Nilfer Gle, ""Snapshots of Islamic Modernities""; Dale F. Eickelman, ""Island and the Languages of Modernity""; Sudipta Kaviraj, ""Modernity and Politics in India""; Stanley J. Tambiah, ""Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities""; Tu Weiming, ""Implications of the Jrise of 'Confucian' East Asia""; Jrgen Heideking, ""The Pattern of American Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War""; and Renato Ortiz, ""From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity.""Written in clear and non-technical language for both a scholarly and general audience, this volume confronts the problem of just what constitutes the common core of modernit

Index

Adams, John, 230

Adelkhah, Fariba, 121

al-’Azm, Sadiq Jalal, 127

American Creed, 220

American modernity

Atlantic background, 220–223

constitutional dimension, 223–227

contributions to, 219–220

cultural dimensions, 233–238

long-term impact, 238–241

patterns in, 220

political dimensions, 227–233

religious dimensions, 233–238

See also Political dimensions; Religion

American modernity impact

Europe model and, 238

federalism, 239–240

problems with, 239

public discourse, 240–241

social change, 240

Antifederalists, 224, 226

Arnason, Johann, 10

Articles of Confederation, 222–224

Assimilation, 167, 184

Atlantic background

British model and, 221–222

modernization revolt, 221–223

Baker, Keith, 42

Barbero, Martin, 256

Bastide, Roger, 250

Bellah, Robert, 236

Benhabib, Seyla, 101

Bhabha, Homi, 178

Bolshevik project, 69–71

Bulaç, Ali, 112

Bunge, Carlos Octovio, 252

Canclini, Nestor Garcia, 256

Castoriadis, Cornelius, 65

Clifford, James, 168–169, 173

Cognitive orientalism, 144

Colas, Dominique, 123

Colonialism

British power and, 142

Christianity impact, 145–146

functions in, 143

local religions, 145

peculiarities, 141–142

social spheres and, 142–143

vs state sovereignty, 142

vs Wester...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Multiple Modernities
• Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition
• Communism and Modernity
• Snapshots of Islamic Modernities
• Islam and the Languages of Modernity
• Modernity and Politics in India
• Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities
• Implications of the Rise of “Confucian” East A
• The Pattern of American Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War
• From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity
• Index