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Asian Horizons

Author : Angelo Andrea Di Castro
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922235334
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Asian Horizons written by Angelo Andrea Di Castro and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Horizons is published in honour of the great scholar of Asia, Professor Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984). Through the work of present-day scholars, both senior and emerging, this volume represents their efforts to maintain the impetus of the profound legacy Tucci left. Renowned to this day as a founding scholar in an extraordinarily wide variety of disciplines, as well as being an explorer of hitherto largely unknown lands, such as Tibet, Tucci gained a deep knowledge of Asia through a familiarity with its people, places and literature. His contribution to modern scholarship is nothing less than remarkable. The volume reflects the broad variety of topics in which Tucci himself displayed deep interest and serves as an homage to his work.

South Asian Horizons: Political economy & rural development

Author : Venkatachala Setty Pendakur
Publisher : School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Horizons: Political economy & rural development written by Venkatachala Setty Pendakur and published by School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia. This book was released on 1900 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shifting Horizons of Public International Law

Author : J.L. Kaul
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 8132237242
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Horizons of Public International Law written by J.L. Kaul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a South Asian perspective on international law, maintaining a suitable distance from the ‘Western’ approach. The themes discussed reflect the region’s particular contribution to the development of international law. Each South Asian country has its own important role to play in promoting regional trade, regulating maritime affairs, ensuring access to water, debating State responsibility, engaging with International Criminal Court, questioning diplomatic and consular immunities, and, most importantly, upholding human rights. These issues are addressed by local contributors from Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, who have come together to represent the whole South Asian region on a single academic platform.

Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons

Author : Elizabeth Rawitsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725572
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons written by Elizabeth Rawitsch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. However, as Elizabeth Rawitsch argues, Capra's construction of national identity did not occur within an exclusively national context. She points out that many of his films are actually set in, or include sequences set in, China, Latin America, the Philippines and the South Seas. Featuring in-depth textual analysis supported by original archival research, Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons explains that Capra's view of what constituted 'America' changed over time, extending its boundaries to embrace countries often far from the United States. Complicating Edward Said's theory of Orientalism as a strict binary in which the West constructs the East as an inferior 'other', it demonstrates that East and West often intermingle in films such as The Bitter Tea of General Yen and in Capra's orientation documentaries for World War II American servicemen; Capra imagined a kind of global community, albeit one with heavy undertones of British and American imperialism. Investigating shifts in what Capra's America has meant over time, both to Capra and to those who have watched and studied his films, this innovative book offers a startlingly fresh perspective on one of the most iconic figures in American film history.

South Asian Folklore in Transition

Author : Frank J. Korom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429753810
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Folklore in Transition written by Frank J. Korom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Subcontinent has been at the centre of folklore inquiry since the 19th century, yet, while much attention was paid to India by early scholars, folkloristic interest in the region waned over time until it virtually disappeared from the research agendas of scholars working in the discipline of folklore and folklife. This fortunately changed in the 1980s when a newly energized group of younger scholars, who were interested in a variety of new approaches that went beyond the textual interface, returned to folklore as an untapped resource in South Asian Studies. This comprehensive volume further reinvigorates the field by providing fresh studies and new models both for studying the “lore” and the “life” of everyday people in the region, as well as their engagement with the world at large. By bringing Muslims, material culture, diasporic horizons, global interventions and politics to bear on South Asian folklore studies, the authors hope to stimulate more dialogue across theoretical and geographical borders to infuse the study of the Indian Subcontinent’s cultural traditions with a new sense of relevance that will be of interest not only to areal specialists but also to folklorists and anthropologists in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries

Author : Jon S. T. Quah
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857248200
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries written by Jon S. T. Quah and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries their governments have introduced many anti-corruption measures since the 1950s. This book analyzes and evaluates the anti-corruption strategies employed in Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Comparative Governance Reform in Asia

Author : Clay Wescott
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846639972
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Governance Reform in Asia written by Clay Wescott and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features chapters that analyze and compare the experiences of Asian countries in carrying out governance reforms. This book tackles such questions as: how common reform packages designed for developed countries are implemented in developing countries? What happens in the reform diffusion process? And what are the obstacles to reform success?

The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology

Author : Lewis Ayres
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191612146
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology written by Lewis Ayres and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology provides a one-volume introduction to all the major aspects of Catholic theology. Part One considers the nature of theological thinking, and the major topics of Catholic teaching, including the Triune God, the Creation, and the mission of the Incarnate Word. It also covers the character of the Christian sacramental life and the major themes of Catholic moral teaching. The treatments in the first part of the Handbook offer personal syntheses of Catholic teaching, but each offers an account in accord with Catholic theology as it is expressed in the Second Vatican Council and authoritative documentation. Part Two focuses on the historical development of Catholic Theology. An initial section offers essays on some of Catholic theology's most important sources between 200 and 1870, and the final section of the collection considers all the main movements and developments in Catholic theology across the world since 1870. This comprehensive volume features fifty-six original contributions by some of the best-known names in current Catholic theology from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The chapters are written in an engaging and easily comprehensible style functioning both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the field. There are no comparable studies available in one volume and the book will be an indispensable reference for students of Catholic theology at all levels and in all contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies

Author : Carol Anderson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100063728X
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies written by Carol Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist-Christian dialogue has a long and complex history that stretches back to the first centuries of the common era. Comprising 42 international and disciplinarily diverse chapters, this volume begins by setting up a framework for examining the nature of Buddhist-Christian interreligious dialogue, discussing how research in this area has been conducted in the past and considering future theoretical directions. Subsequent chapters delve into: important episodes in the history of Buddhist-Christian dialogue; contemporary conversations such as monastic interreligious dialogue, multiple religious identity, and dual religious practice; and Buddhist-Christian cooperation in social justice, social engagement, pastoral care, and interreligious education settings. The volume closes with a section devoted to comparative and constructive explorations of different speculative themes that range from the theological to the philosophical or experiential. This handbook explores how the study of Buddhist-Christian relations has been and ought to be done. The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies is essential reading for researchers and students interested in Buddhist-Christian studies, Asian religions, and interreligious relationships. It will be of interest to those in fields such as anthropology, political science, theology, and history.

Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia

Author : Tim Bunnell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400754825
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia written by Tim Bunnell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical perspectives from four Asian countries: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and includes a wealth of insights that both critique and expand popular notions of the rural-urban divide. The volume is relevant not just to Asian contexts but to social scientific research on population dynamics more generally. Rather than deploying a single study to chart national trends, three chapters on each country make possible much more complex perspectives. As a result, this volume does more than extend our understanding of the interplay between cities and hinterlands within Asia. It enhances our notions of rural/urban cleavages, connections and conflicts more generally, with data and analysis ready for application to other contexts. Of interest to diverse scholars across the social sciences and Asian studies, this work includes accounts ranging from rural youth real estate entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, India, to social development in Aceh province in Indonesia, devastated by the 2004 tsunami, to the relationship between urban space and commonly held notions of the supernatural in Thailand’s northern city of Chiang Mai.

Solidarity and Reciprocity with Migrants in Asia

Author : Mary Mee-Yin Yuen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030333655
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Solidarity and Reciprocity with Migrants in Asia written by Mary Mee-Yin Yuen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized. Mary Mee-Yin Yuen draws off her own pastoral experiences in the Church, the situation of the wider Christian community, and the personal experiences of migrant women from various Asian countries in Hong Kong, to describe the features and practices of an ethical approach that emphasizes solidarity and reciprocity. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book integrates Catholic social ethics, moral philosophy, Chinese Confucian ethics, social sciences, and cultural studies to investigate the phenomenon of international and intra-national migration in Asia, particularly with regard to women migrants moving from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Mainland China to Hong Kong.

Genealogy, Archive, Image

Author : Angma Jhala
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110539454
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Genealogy, Archive, Image written by Angma Jhala and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over the longue durée, from the eleventh to twentieth centuries. The essays critique a collection of contemporary miniature paintings, which chart the dynastic history of Jhalavad’s rulers and the textual and ethnographic archive upon which they are based. A multidisciplinary work, it crosses the boundaries of history, anthropology, folklore and mythology, gender, musicology, literary studies, and visual, film and digital media. The essays draw upon a variety of voices, spanning various religious and ethnic communities, including Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Parsees and Siddhi Africans, and caste identities, such as that of the bard, ballad singer, king, priest, court chronicler, soldier, mason and drummer De Gruyter Open apologizes for the fact that the April 2017 edition of the book titled ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image: Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c.1090-2016’, published by De Gruyter Open, included on pages 72, 79 and 80 text originating from the website http://www.royalark.net/India/dhranga8.htm, the editor of which is Mr. Christopher Buyers, which text presented the results of Mr Christopher Buyers’s research and was included in that edition without reference to its source. These three passages were inserted by Jayasinhji Jhala without the knowledge of John McLeod, the author of the chapter in which they appeared.

Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature

Author : Đình Thâm Nguyẽ̂n
Publisher : SEAP Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780877271277
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature written by Đình Thâm Nguyẽ̂n and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains over 2,500 entries to guide students and scholars interested in the languages and literature of Vietnam. The books, monographs, and journal articles considered are those written in the Western languages (especially French and English). Meticulously researched and indexed, this bibliography is both the first of its kind and an invaluable reference tool.

Studying Hinduism in Practice

Author : Hillary P. Rodrigues
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136680977
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Studying Hinduism in Practice written by Hillary P. Rodrigues and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on personal experiences of Hinduism on the ground, this book provides a reflective context within which religious practices can be understood and appreciated. It conveys the rich realities of the Hindu tradition and the academic approaches through which they are studied. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including dance, music, performance, festival traditions, temples, myth, philosophy, women’s practices, and divine possession. The engaging narratives are accompanied by contextual discussions and advice on such topics as conducting fieldwork, colonialism, Hindu seasonal celebrations, understanding deities, and aesthetics in Hinduism. All the entries are accompanied by photographs and suggestions for further reading.

Arab Lefts

Author : Guirguis Laure Guirguis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474454259
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Arab Lefts written by Guirguis Laure Guirguis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab Radical Left explores the entangled histories of Left-wing trends across the Mashreq and Maghreb regions in the 'Long Sixties'. Based on an analysis of textual and audio-visual materials, it surveys radical Left traditions in the Arab world that took shape between the 1950s and 1970s. The book is divided into three thematic parts that are compiled of case studies utilising a multitude of perspectives in political theory, history, literary studies and sociology. In the first part, the authors study revolutionary circulations of men, representations, and know-how. The second part is devoted to interrogating the multifaceted tensions between local, regional, and global challenges. The final part scrutinises the transformations of political subjectivities and invites reflection on the general shift from a revolutionary configuration of temporality to the closure of time - and the so-called 'Left Melancholy'. The result is a balanced account of Left-wing revolutionaries that provides new insights into the history of the Middle East as well as contemporary radicalisation processes and authoritarian rules.

Horizons

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Horizons written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bridging Scripture and Moral Theology

Author : Michael B. Cover
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498567762
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Bridging Scripture and Moral Theology written by Michael B. Cover and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features essays engaging in the wide-ranging work of Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, S.J., the fields of scriptural research, moral theology, and systematic theology. Each essay either engages Chan’s scholarship directly or seeks to advance his design to bridge the disciplinary gaps between scriptural research and constructive theology.