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Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity

Author : Michael A. Meyer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338607
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity written by Michael A. Meyer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the ideas of “tradition” and “modernity” may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers have gathered contributors for Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old Opposition to examine the permutations and adaptations of these intertwined forms of Jewish expression. Contributions draw from a range of disciplines and scholarly interests and vary in subject from the theological to the liturgical, sociological, and literary. The geographic and historical focus of the volume is on the United States and the State of Israel, both of which have been major sites of inquiry in Ellenson’s work. In twenty-one essays, contributors demonstrate that modernity did not simply replace tradition in Judaism, but rather entered into a variety of relationships with it: adopting or adapting certain elements, repossessing rituals that had once been abandoned, or struggling with its continuing influence. In four parts—Law, Ritual, Thought, and Culture—contributors explore a variety of subjects, including the role of reform in Israeli Orthodoxy, traditions of twentieth-century bar/bat mitzvah, end-of-life ethics, tensions between Zionism and American Jewry, and the rise of a 1960s New York Jewish counterculture. An introductory essay also presents an appreciation of Ellenson's scholarly contribution. Bringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many disciplines.

Tradition and Modernity

Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195112253
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Modernity written by Kwame Gyekye and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gyekye offers a philosophical interpretation and critical analysis of the African cultural experience in modern times, and shows how Western philosophical concepts help in addressing a wide range of specifically African problems.

The Modernity of Tradition

Author : Lloyd I. Rudolph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226731375
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Modernity of Tradition written by Lloyd I. Rudolph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-07-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition. Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.

Tradition and Modernity

Author : David Marshall
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589019822
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Modernity written by David Marshall and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.

Modalities of Change

Author : James Wilkerson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857455680
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Modalities of Change written by James Wilkerson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in some cases modernity may place "traditional" forms of expression at a disadvantage, in others, the modern is embraced as a welcome source of new ideas that can be incorporated into "tradition" in order to change it, while remaining within its own parameters. This is actually likely to help a tradition survive. Maintaining a strong and distinct cultural identity with the help of modernity helps representatives of that identity cope with the modern world more generally. Assimilation to a dominant culture marked as modern, by contrast, is clearly associated with not only the loss of a distinct identity, but also its specific forms of cultural expression. This book explores the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam. The chapters question to what extent traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways, in the interests of their own further developments.

Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean

Author : Vassos Argyrou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521560950
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean written by Vassos Argyrou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is a legitimising discourse. It is an idiom which Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernisation, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe.

Tradition and Modernity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004165789
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Modernity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Question for Twentieth-Century China has been the integration of tradition and modernity. In this collection of essays written over a period of some twenty years (1987-2006), Chen Lai reflects on the question in an informative and original way. He reads behind the political slogans and engages with the thought both of Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Western sociology, and representative Chinese thinkers, notably Feng Youlan and Liang Shuming. While the focus is on China, the book also appeals to anyone interested in this fascinating question of how to modernise whilst retaining the positive values of tradition. Chen Lai s unique and balanced grasp of society marks him out as the foremost thinker in China on this topic today.

Mirror of Modernity

Author : Stephen Vlastos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206373
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Mirror of Modernity written by Stephen Vlastos and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of its pre-modern and insular past. Scholars examine "age-old" Japanese cultural practices and show these to be largely creations of the modern era.

Between Tradition and Modernity

Author : Mark A. Russell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845453695
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Between Tradition and Modernity written by Mark A. Russell and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, was one of the most influential cultural historians of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this is the first in-depth, book-length study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. It analyses Warburg's response to the effects of these phenomena through a study of his involvement with the creation of some of the most important public artworks in Germany. Using a wide array of archival sources, including many of his unpublished working papers and much of his correspondence, the author demonstrates that Warburg's thinking on contemporary art was the product of two important influences: his engagement with Hamburg's civic affairs and his affinity with influential reform movements seeking a greater role for the middle classes in the political, social and cultural leadership of the nation. Thus a lively picture of Hamburg's cultural life emerges as it responded to artistic modernism, animated by private initiative and public discourse, and charged with debate.

Between Tradition and Modernity

Author : Fred R Dallmayr
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780761992448
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Between Tradition and Modernity written by Fred R Dallmayr and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1998-07-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An AltaMira Press Book The process of modernization poses a profound challenge to societies. Nowhere is this more true than in India where cultural memories have been severely tested by colonial domination but have been loyally preserved nonetheless. This anthology documents the intellectual struggle of Indian writers and philosophers in the twentieth century to articulate the meaning of "India" and thereby establish an identity which bridges indigenous tradition and Western-style modernity. The book focuses on the existential dimension of India's encounter with the West-its role as a catalyst in the process of self-scrutiny and in the search for self-rule and cultural identity. As a whole, the anthology constitutes not so much an objective travellogue but rather a 'sentimental journey' reflecting the experiences of prominent Indians, thereby revealing that the process of modernization and development is really a struggle over the heart and soul of India and, by extension, over the sense and direction of humanity or humankind. It provides a timely perspective on self-understanding or self-interpretation in India's fiftieth year of independence.

Tradition Through Modernity

Author : Pertti J. Anttonen
Publisher : Studia Fennica Folkloristica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition Through Modernity written by Pertti J. Anttonen and published by Studia Fennica Folkloristica. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When studying social practices that are regarded as traditional, 'tradition' is usually seen as an element of meaning. Whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those who are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explicated or not. The individuals, groups of people and institutions that are studied may continue to uphold their traditions or name their practices traditions without having to state in analytical terms their criteria for traditionality. This cannot, however, apply to people who make the study of traditions their profession, especially those engaged in the academic field of the 'science of tradition,' a paraphrase given to folklore studies. Traditions call for explanation, instead of being merely described or used as explanations for apparent repetitions, reiterations, replications, continuations or symbolic linking in social practice, values, meaning, culture, and history. In order to explain the concept of tradition and the category of the traditional, scholars must situate its use in particular historically specific discourses -- ways of knowing, speaking, conceptualisation and representation -- in which social acts receive their meanings as traditional. This book argues that since the concepts of tradition and modern are fundamentally modern, what they aim to and are able to describe, report and denote is epistemologically modern, as that which is regarded as non-modern and traditional is appropriated into modern social knowledge through modern concepts and discursive means. Modernity cannot represent non-modernity without modern mediation, which therefore makes the representations of non-modernity also modern. Accordingly, the book deals with the modernness of objectifying, representing and studying folklore and oral traditions. The first section focuses on modern and tradition as modern concepts, and the conception of folklore and its study as a modern trajectory. The second section discusses the politics of folklore with regard to nationalism, and the role of folk tradition in the production of nation-state identity in Finland.

Modernity in Islamic Tradition

Author : Florian Zemmin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110545845
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Modernity in Islamic Tradition written by Florian Zemmin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of ‘society’ as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition. The fact that the classical term umma was a principal term used to conceptualize modern society suggests the convergence of discursive traditions in modernity, rather than a mere diffusion of European concepts.

Modernity At Large

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900063
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity At Large written by Arjun Appadurai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Tradition and Modernity

Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172713
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Between Tradition and Modernity written by Paul A. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study and critical analysis of the late nineteenth century journalist and reformer, Wang T’ao, and the process of reform in Late Ching China .

Modernity in Indian Social Theory

Author : A. Raghuramaraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088365
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Modernity in Indian Social Theory written by A. Raghuramaraju and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju argues that modernity in the West involved disinheriting the pre-modern, and temporal ordering of the traditional and modern. It was ruthlessly implemented through programmes of industrialization, nationalism, and secularism. This book underscores that India did not merely the Western model of modernity or experience a temporal ordering of society. It situates this sociological complexity in the context of the debates on social theory. The author critically examines various discourses on modernity in India, including Partha Chatterjee’s account of Indian nationalism; Javeed Alam’s reading of Indian secularism; the use of the term pluralism by some Indian social scientists; and Gopal Guru’s emphasis on the lived Dalit experience. He also engages with the readings on key thinkers including Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.

Modernity and Culture

Author : Leila Fawaz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504772
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Culture written by Leila Fawaz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonial empires gave way to colonial and national states, there was a sense that a particular liberalism of culture and economy had been irretrievably lost to a more intolerant age. Avoiding such dichotomies as East/West and modernity/tradition, this book provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity. The book examines not only the "high" culture of scholars and the literati, but also popular music, the visual arts, and journalism. The contributors incorporate discussion of the way in which the business in both commodities and ideas was conducted in the increasingly cosmopolitan cities of the time.

Modernity and the Classical Tradition

Author : Alan Colquhoun
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262531016
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and the Classical Tradition written by Alan Colquhoun and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architecture. Alan Colquhoun is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. His previous collection of essays received the 1985 Architectural Critics Award.