Community, Self and Identity

Bhabagrahi Misra, James Preston, Bhabagrahi Misra, James Preston

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9789027976505
• eBook ISBN: 9783110802658
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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Table of contents

• General Editor’s Preface
• Introduction
• SECTION ONE: COMMUNITY IN SOUTH ASIAN CULTURES
• Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India
• Commercial Economy of an Urban Temple in India: A Shift from Inheritance to Consignment Rights
• The Indian Caste Community as a Social System
• Social Cohesion and Reciprocation in a Tibetan Community in Nepal
• SECTION TWO: CULTURES OF THE SOVIET UNION
• Interaction of Cultures Among Peoples of the USSR
• Development of Traditional Aspects of National Culture in the Soviet Central Asian Republics
• SECTION THREE: COMMUNITY AND WORLD JUDAISM
• The Jews as an Ethnic Group in the Americas During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese
• Some Functional and Structural Aspects of Family Life in a Communal Society: The Financial Sector of the Kibbutz Family
• Jewish Communities as Cultural Units
• SECTION FOUR: COMMUNAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA
• Eschatological Living: Religious Experience in the Shaker Community
• Religious Orientation of the Communal Counter-Culture: God, Nature, and Mysticism in Contemporary Society
• Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting
• The Country Place: An Intentional, Therapeutic Community
• Ethnography of Religious Factors in a Politically Oriented Communal Group of New England
• Aspects of Personality in a Communal Society
• Communitarian Experiments and the Self
• Biographical Notes
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects