Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities : : a collection of essays, part one / / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt.

• Superior document: Social Sciences - Book Archive 2000-2006
• VerfasserIn: Eisenstadt, Shmuel N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social Sciences - Book Archive 2000-2006.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (500 pages)

This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129931).

Table of Contents

Preface / S.N. Eisenstadt -- List of Permissions -- Chapter One Introduction: Comparative Studies and Sociological Theory-From Comparative Studies to Civilizational Analysis: Autobiographical Notes / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Introduction to Section I, “Theoretical Approach” / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Two The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Three Social Division of Labor, Construction of Centers and Institutional Dynamics: A Reassessment of the Structural-Evolutionary Perspective / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Four The Construction of Collective Identities and the Continual Reconstruction of Primordiality and Sacrality—Some Analytical and Comparative Indications / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Five Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Six Comparative Liminality. Liminality and Dynamics of Civilization / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Introduction to Section II–A of Axial Civilizations: General Analysis / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Seven The Axial Age: The Emergence of Transcendental Visions and the Rise of Clerics / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Eight Cultural Traditions and Political Dynamics: The Origins and Modes of Ideological Politics / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Nine Transcendental Vision, Center Formation, and the Role of Intellectuals / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Ten Utopias and Dynamics of Civilizations: Some Concluding Comparative Observations / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Introduction to Section II–B: Analysis of Selected Axial Civilizations and of Japan / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Eleven This-Worldly Transcendentalism and the Structuring of the World: Weber’s “Religion of China” and the Format of Chinese History and Civilization / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Twelve Some Observations on the Transformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Thirteen A Short Comparative Excurse on the (Theravada) Buddhist Civilizational Format and Historical Experience / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Fourteen Cultural Traditions, Conceptions of Sovereignty and State Formations in India and Europe / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Fifteen The Crystallization of Christian Civilization in Europe / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Sixteen The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal History / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Seventeen Civil Society, Public Sphere, the Myth of Oriental Despotism and Political Dynamics in Islamic Societies / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Eighteen Japan and the Multiplicity of Cultural Programmes of Modernity / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Nineteen Some Comparative Indications about the Dynamics of Historical Axial and Non-Axial Civilizations / S.N. Eisenstadt.