Local and global : : social transformation in Southeast Asia : essays in honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas / / edited by Riaz Hassan.
The essays in this volume explore three aspects of social transformation of Southeast Asian Societies namely, social change and development, the role of intellectuals, religious and cultural values. They are a tribute to the seminal contributions of the distinguished Malaysian sociologist Syed Husse...
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| Superior document: | Social sciences in Asia, v. 3 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social sciences in Asia ;
v. 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Riaz Hassan); Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Global Knowledge: The Epistemic Culture of Development (Hans-Dieter Evers); 2 Is Secularisation a Global Process? An Exercise in Conceptual History (Joachim Matthes); 3 A Question of Identity: Knowledge and the Formation of Post-colonial Nation-states in Asia (A.B. Shamsul); 4 Return of the Lazy Native: Explaining Malay/Immigrant Labour Transition in Terengganu Plantation Society (Zawawi Ibrahim); 5 Islam, Socialism and Marxism: Clarifying Incompatibilities (K.S. Jomo)
- 6 Academic Freedom at the Dawn of the New Millennium: An Asian Perspective (Ajit Singh Rye)7 Scholars and the Transformation of Confucianism (Joseph B. Tamney); 8 Emerging Intellectual Traditions of the Social Sciences: The Malaysian-Asian Agenda (Wazir Jahan Karim); 9 Alatas and Shari'ati on Socialism: Autonomous Social Science and Occidentalism (Syed Farid Alatas); 10 Nation-state Reformulated: Interrogating Received Wisdom (Partha Nath Mukherji); 11 De-Centring Social Sciences in Practice through Individual Acts and Choices (Vineeta Sinha)
- 12 Values and Development: Some Reflections (Tham Seong Chee)13 Syed Hussein Alatas and Progressive Islam between the Middle East and Southeast Asia (Mona Abaza); 14 Consciousness and Polity in Southeast Asia: The Long View (Geoffrey Benjamin); 15 Institutional Order and Trust in Religious Institutions in Muslim Societies (Riaz Hassan); 16 Religion and Utopian Thinking among the Muslims of Southeast Asia (Shaharuddin Maaruf); 17 Meeting Hussein-1958 (Peter L. Burns); Selected Publications of Syed Hussein Alatas; Index