Rethinking Religion in India - a five-year conference cluster, New Delhi
academe, anthropology, conference, events, india, modernization, organization, religion, research, secularism, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.cultuurwetenschap.be/conferences/RRI
academe, anthropology, conference, events, india, modernization, organization, religion, research, secularism, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.cultuurwetenschap.be/conferences/RRI
Sabrina Tavernise, "Youthful voice stirs challenge to secular Turks" (profile of Hawa Yilmaz), International Herald Tribune (Oct. 14, 2008)
A profile of Hawa Yilmaz, a young Turkish woman who decided as a teenager to begin wearing the hijab, against the wishes of her family and to the disapproval of her friends. She has now b...
activism, islam, journalism, modernization, news, pluralism, religion, religion_news, secularism, turkey, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/14/europe/14turkey.php?page=1
A profile of Hawa Yilmaz, a young Turkish woman who decided as a teenager to begin wearing the hijab, against the wishes of her family and to the disapproval of her friends. She has now b...
activism, islam, journalism, modernization, news, pluralism, religion, religion_news, secularism, turkey, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/14/europe/14turkey.php?page=1
Scott London, "Crossing Borders: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez," The Sun Magazine 260 (August 1997)
Rodriguez on assimilation, race, "divesity," migration, and Los Angeles.
art, cities, commentary, interview, modernization, race saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/1884?print=all
Rodriguez on assimilation, race, "divesity," migration, and Los Angeles.
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/1884?print=all
Losing the Yeti in Forgotten Nation of Bhutan | LiveScience
An interesting piece of research showing that traditional beliefs in the Yeti have been disappearing -- or, more precisely, are more and more often linked with backwardness and ignorance ...
belief, modernization, religion, science, secularism, south_asia saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.livescience.com/culture/080810-ap-losing-yeti.html
An interesting piece of research showing that traditional beliefs in the Yeti have been disappearing -- or, more precisely, are more and more often linked with backwardness and ignorance ...
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http://www.livescience.com/culture/080810-ap-losing-yeti.html
New book by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart "Sacred and Secular" Forthcoming CUP 2004
Sacred and Secular is essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion, sociology, public opinion, political behavior, political development, social psychology, internation...
2004, book, culture, inglehart, modernization, secularization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Books/Sacred_and_secular.htm
Sacred and Secular is essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion, sociology, public opinion, political behavior, political development, social psychology, internation...
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http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Books/Sacred_and_secular.htm
TWQ Global Trends: Globalization and Postmodern Values by Ronald Inglehart
A growing body of evidence indicates that deep-rooted changes in world views are taking place. These changes seem to be reshaping economic, political, and social life in societies around ...
2000, article, culture, inglehart, modernization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.twq.com/winter00/231Inglehart.html
A growing body of evidence indicates that deep-rooted changes in world views are taking place. These changes seem to be reshaping economic, political, and social life in societies around ...
2000, article, culture, inglehart, modernization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.twq.com/winter00/231Inglehart.html
Ronald Inglehart - Globalization and Postmodern Values - The Washington Quarterly 23:1
A growing body of evidence indicates that deep-rooted changes in world views are taking place. These changes seem to be reshaping economic, political, and social life in societies around ...
2000, article, culture, inglehart, modernization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/washington_quarterly/v023/23.1inglehart.html
A growing body of evidence indicates that deep-rooted changes in world views are taking place. These changes seem to be reshaping economic, political, and social life in societies around ...
2000, article, culture, inglehart, modernization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/washington_quarterly/v023/23.1inglehart.html
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy - Cambridge University Press
Modernization is a process of human development, in which economic development triggers cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely.
2005, book, democracy, inglehart, modernization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521609715
Modernization is a process of human development, in which economic development triggers cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely.
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http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521609715
Making the Shift Happen | always learning
In all honesty, it’s quite amazing to me that every school I’ve worked in has very similar problems, very similar history in terms of technology education, and very similar ideas of w...
2008, adaptation, article, buy-in, catalyzation, cofino, communication, confidence, institutionalization, leadership, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/making-the-shift-happen
In all honesty, it’s quite amazing to me that every school I’ve worked in has very similar problems, very similar history in terms of technology education, and very similar ideas of w...
2008, adaptation, article, buy-in, catalyzation, cofino, communication, confidence, institutionalization, leadership, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/making-the-shift-happen
Interview: 'Fukuyama: the end of history man' by John Gray | Prospect Magazine December 1995 issue 3
In Trust, Fukuyama identifies the cultural sources of differences in economic performance among different types of capitalism. He finds one source of divergence in the "social capital" em...
1995, capitalism, culture, education, emancipation, fukuyama, individualism, interview, legalism, modernization, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=4944
In Trust, Fukuyama identifies the cultural sources of differences in economic performance among different types of capitalism. He finds one source of divergence in the "social capital" em...
1995, capitalism, culture, education, emancipation, fukuyama, individualism, interview, legalism, modernization, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=4944
Trusting economics? A review of Francis Fukuyama's Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity | Theology Today | Find Articles at BNET.com
He seeks to study the ways in which trust, and thus civil society, and thus peoples over time, flourish, as evidenced in the kind and quality of their material development.
1996, bookreview, civil-society, convergence, corruption, culture, fukuyama, interaction, modernization, self-cultivation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_199607/ai_n8750582
He seeks to study the ways in which trust, and thus civil society, and thus peoples over time, flourish, as evidenced in the kind and quality of their material development.
1996, bookreview, civil-society, convergence, corruption, culture, fukuyama, interaction, modernization, self-cultivation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_199607/ai_n8750582
Mapping Iran’s Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere | Berkman Center
In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative point...
2008, blogging, blogs, culture, iran, kelly, modernization, politics, report saved by: meryn more details ...
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2008/Mapping_Irans_Online_Public
In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative point...
2008, blogging, blogs, culture, iran, kelly, modernization, politics, report saved by: meryn more details ...
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2008/Mapping_Irans_Online_Public
Iranian Blogosphere Tests Government’s Limits - New York Times
The researchers’ general conclusion was that, “despite periodic persecution,” many Iranians are able to use blogs to express “viewpoints challenging the ruling ideology of the Isl...
2008, article, blogs, iran, modernization, nytimes saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/world/middleeast/06iranblog.html
The researchers’ general conclusion was that, “despite periodic persecution,” many Iranians are able to use blogs to express “viewpoints challenging the ruling ideology of the Isl...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/world/middleeast/06iranblog.html
Europe and secularization (book review)
Mark Lilla (U of Chicago, Cmtee. on Social Thought) reviews Michael Burleigh's "Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe From the French Revolution to the Great War" i...
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http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/03/31/arts/idlede1.php
Mark Lilla (U of Chicago, Cmtee. on Social Thought) reviews Michael Burleigh's "Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe From the French Revolution to the Great War" i...
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http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/03/31/arts/idlede1.php