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Kinds of Modernity Selected AbstractsMODERNITY BETWEEN US AND THEM: THE PLACE OF RELIGION WITHIN HISTORY,HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 4 2006DAVID GARY SHAW First page of article [source] WITHOUT PURPOSE: MODERNITY AND THE LOSS OF FINAL CAUSESTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2010OWEN ANDERSON First page of article [source] THE CATHOLIC IMAGINATION AND MODERNITY: WILLIAM CAVANAUGH'S THEOPOLITICAL IMAGINATION AND CHARLES TAYLOR'S MODERN SOCIAL IMAGINATION1THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2007RANDALL S. ROSENBERG This essay argues that William Cavanaugh's ,Theopolitical Imagination' uncovers some of the possibilities latent within the Catholic imagination. While his critique of modernity is often persuasive, this essay questions whether Cavanaugh's assessment of modernity can be complemented by a more differentiated approach. What Charles Taylor provides is both a bolstering of Cavanaugh's thesis about the power of the imagination and an alternative: that there is a way of thinking about the relationship between the Church and modernity other than in dialectical terms , namely a ,Ricci reading' of modernity. [source] Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities.HYPATIA, Issue 2 2010By SANDRA HARDING First page of article [source] Church and Culture: Protestant and Catholic ModernitiesNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1026 2009Anthony J. Carroll SJ Abstract This article reviews the church and culture relationship developed in Gaudium et Spes and Lumen Gentium and proposes a Catholic account of modernity as a way in which the contemporary mission of the church in today's culture can be creatively and faithfully carried forward. After an initial outlining of the definitions of church and culture proposed by the Vatican documents, I then go on to position my proposal of a Catholic modernity in relation to some important current accounts of the church and culture relationship that tend towards a rejection of secular culture. I argue that Protestant accounts of modernity have dominated in philosophical and sociological theories and draw on my previous work on Max Weber to illustrate the significance of this for developing a Catholic account of modernity. I conclude by sketching some of the important issues which would need to be addressed in formulating a systematic account of a Catholic modernity. [source] Buddhisms of French Indochina: Reconsidering Buddhist Modernities and Buddhist Nationalisms in the 19th and 20th CenturiesRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2009Thomas Borchert First page of article [source] The Imperial Presidency, the War on Terrorism, and the Revolutions of ModernityCONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 1 2002Robin Blackburn First page of article [source] 911, or Modernity and TerrorCONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 1 2002Agnes Heller First page of article [source] White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity , By James W. PerkinsonCONVERSATIONS IN RELIGION & THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2007Stephen G. Ray Jr. First page of article [source] The Flexible and the Pliant: Disturbed Organisms of Soviet ModernityCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2004Serguei Alex. In the texts of prominent Soviet figures such as writer Maxim Gorky, the agrobiologist Trofim Lysenko, and the educator Anton Makarenko, the uncertainty of social norms in early Soviet society became equated with an instability of environment in general and nature in particular. A powerful and vivid rhetoric of a "second nature," to use Gorky's phrase, overcame the absence of clearly articulated models for subjectivity. A series of disciplining routines and activities capable of producing the new Soviet subject compensated in the 1930s for the dissolution of the daily order of things and all the structuring effects, social networks, and reciprocal obligations that were associated with it. [source] The Listening Subject of Japanese Modernity and His Auditory Double: Citing, Sighting, and Siting the Modern Japanese WomanCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2003Miyako Inoue First page of article [source] Gender and the Politics of Voice: Colonial Modernity and Classical Music in South IndiaCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2003Amanda Weidman First page of article [source] Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos AiresCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Emanuela Guano First page of article [source] Environment and Modernity in Transitional China: Frontiers of Ecological ModernizationDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 1 2006Arthur P. J. Mol The process of institutionalizing environmental interests and considerations in Western (especially, but not only, European) industrialized societies has been reflected and theorized upon by social scientists, many of whom have adopted the ,ecological modernization' framework. One of the key questions on the research agenda of ecological modernization is its appropriateness for developing or industrializing countries in other parts of the world. This contribution analyses to what extent environmental reforms in contemporary China can be interpreted as ecological modernization. It focuses on the similarities and differences between Chinese and European modes or styles of ecological modernization with respect to the role of state institutions, market dynamics, civil society pressure and international integration. [source] High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and ModernityADDICTION, Issue 9 2003AMBROS UCHTENHAGEN No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Cult of ModernityFINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2001Barbara Townley This article examines Strategic Performance Management Systems oftenintroduced as a key component of New Public Management. In doing so, it identifies some of the common and long-standing difficulties identified with the introduction and use of performance measures. The article then questions why such management systems are consistently advocated given some of the apparently serious dysfunctions that their introduction and use can engender. It concludes that these systems reflect a deeper attachment to what has been characterised as Enlightenment thinking, and that an archaeology of this style of thought is a necessary pre-requisite for understanding models of management that are promulgated. [source] Accounting, Modernity and Health Care PolicyFINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2001Irvine Lapsley The National Health Service of the United Kingdom has been the subject of many reforms since it was established in 1948. This paper examines the process of reform in relation to significant changes to the NHS in recent decades. This reform process places ideas of the modern at the heart of these various initiatives. This paper also examines the intended or actual role of accounting in this modernisation process to examine its significance in the making of health care policy. [source] Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua by Elizabeth DoreGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2008MARK D. SZUCHMAN No abstract is available for this article. [source] Modernity without Modernisation: The Evolution of Domestic Service in North-West Spain, 1752,1900GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2006Isidro Dubert First page of article [source] The Renewal of the Radical Right: Between Modernity and Anti-modernityGOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 2 2000Michael Minkenberg [source] Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global ModernityHISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2002Ryan Dunch "Cultural imperialism" has been an influential concept in the representation of the modern Christian missionary movement. This essay calls its usefulness into question and draws on recent work on the cultural dynamics of globalization to propose alternative ways of looking at the role of missions in modern history. The first section of the essay surveys the ways in which the term "cultural imperialism" has been employed in different disciplines, and some of the criticisms made of the term within those disciplines. The second section discusses the application of the cultural imperialism framework to the missionary enterprise, and the related term "colonization of consciousness" used by Jean and John Comaroff in their influential work on British missionaries and the Tswana of southern Africa. The third section looks at the historiography of missions in modern China, showing how deeply the teleological narratives of nationalism and development have marked that historiography. The concluding section argues that the missionary movement must be seen as one element in a globalizing modernity that has altered Western societies as well as non,Western ones in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and that a comparative global approach to the missionary movement can help to illuminate the process of modern cultural globalization. [source] Psychoanalysis, History, and My Own Private GermanyHISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 1 2000Dagmar Herzog Book reviewed in this article: My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity, by Eric L. Santner [source] Healing and Salvation in Late Modernity: the Use and Implication of Such Terms in the Ecumenical MovementINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 380-381 2007Vebjørn Horsfjord This article explores developments over the last decades in the way ecumenical texts, primarily originating from world conferences organized by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, speak about soteriology. Under the headlines, "Salvation Today" (1973) and "Your Kingdom Come" (1980), terminology inspired by liberation theology took centre stage, and a predominantly immanent understanding of salvation was promoted. In recent years a different terminology has taken over, and it is one that focuses on "healing" and "the fullness of life". At its best, the holistic healing approach manages to take up the important concerns from earlier times, such as economic justice, racism and environmental issues, while at the same time giving more room for existential issues and the experiences of the individual The new healing discourse appears to reflect two different modalities of the church's healing ministry, viz. that which is concerned with the causes of suffering, and that which addresses the experience of suffering. The latter was often ignored in the recent past. The healing discourse gives room for new explorations of practices that have been central in the church throughout its history, such as anointing the sick, and praying for and with them, and hearing individual confessions. Openness towards subjective experience also has implications for the contextualization of the Christian faith. There is a new awareness that not only do the causes of suffering vary from situation to situation but so does the understanding of (what constitutes) suffering itself. Changing or varying understandings of suffering give rise to different approaches to its alleviation, and can inspire a rethinking of how we understand salvation in different contexts. The new healing discourse can also be studied in its relationship to cultural trends known as post-modernity or late modernity. The texts under study display very ambivalent approaches to these developments. There might be a tendency for texts that have concrete experience as their starting point to take a more positive view of these cultural developments than do texts that begin with more general theological observations. [source] Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Secker and the Church of England , By Robert G. IngramJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 3 2009Geordan Hammond No abstract is available for this article. [source] Modernity and the Plasticity of PerceptionJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 1 2001Noöl Carroll First page of article [source] Authenticity, Colonialism, and the Struggle with ModernityJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2002John B. Hertz Puerto Rico's architectural legacy and struggle with modernity is found in the confrontation between the colonial period and the recent past. This conflict is revealed in the plan to replace the modernist icon, the Hotel La Concha in San Juan, with a revivalist "Hispanic" complex. In spite of the latter supposedly being more "Puerto Rican," it is the modern building from the recent past, rather than the new revival model, that is truly authentic. The proposed development copies an invented style imposed by the United States on the island after its conquest one hundred years ago. However, rather than acknowledging the presence of architecture built by the Spanish in Puerto Rico, the project revives the architecture of American colonization. [source] Engendering a Therapeutic Ethos: Modernity, Masculinity & NervousnessJOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2009KATIE WRIGHT This article considers discourses of "nervousness" as an important historical dimension of the "therapeutic turn". By tracing an emerging therapeutic sensibility through Australian medical literature and the popular print media of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it provides an Antipodean perspective on the discursive and cultural terrain receptive to Freudian ideas and psychology, which were central to the ascendancy of a psychotherapeutic ethos. Through a particular focus on concerns about "nervous men", the article explores how perceived problems of "nervousness" destabilized masculine ideals and helped engender a greater concern with personal distress, factors significant for the florescence of therapeutic culture. [source] "You Can Buy a Player's Legs, But Not His Heart": A Critique of Clientelism and Modernity among Soccer Fans in Mexico CityJOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2004Roger Magazine RESUMEN Este artículo presenta una crítica local del clientelismo en México, expresada en el lenguaje de jugar al fútbol y la forma de animar. Los miembros jóvenes y varones de un club de aficionados al fútbol, que apoyan a un equipo conocido por la juventud de sus jugadores, conceptualizan la durabilidad, la rigidez y la extensión del clientelismo a través de una analogía con la manera aburrida y cautelosa de jugar y animar que tienen los jugadores y aficionados de los equipos rivales. Los miembros del club aseguran que ellos y los jugadores de su equipo, a diferencia de la mayoría de los miembros de la sociedad mexicana, viven fuera de la influencia del clientelismo, puesto que aún no se han transformado en clientes gracias a su juventud. Su alternativa al clientelismo no es la democracia moderna o la racionalidad burocrática, sino más bien, un juego de fútbol, la animación u otra actividad inspirada en el ferviente amor y caracterizado por la espontaneidad, pasión y creatividad. Esta crítica local sirve como un recordatorio de un comentario social serio que no sigue la forma de una ideología política y que es encontrado en otros contextos, como por ejemplo, en el estadio de fútbol, frecuentemente no tenido en cuenta por los científicos sociales. [source] Enregistering Modernity, Bluffing Criminality: How Nouchi Speech Reinvented (and Fractured) the NationJOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2009Sasha Newell This paper traces processes of the enregisterment of modernity in French and Nouchi (an urban patois) in Côte d'Ivoire, arguing that the struggles to define the indexical values of Nouchi and the performative bluff of urban street life associated with it have played a central role in the production of Ivoirian national identity. Speakers of Nouchi integrate references to American pop culture with local Ivoirian lexical content, which allows Nouchi use ambivalently to index both modernity and autochthony. In so doing they overturn the hierarchical schema of evaluation defined by proximity to the French standard. Nouchi indexes a new pan-ethnic Ivoirian identity based on the alternative modernity of cosmopolitan urban youth. Urban youth reject the Francocentric elitism of the postcolonial state but themselves exclude Northern migrants, whom they qualify as less than modern, from Ivoirian citizenship.,[modernity, enregisterment, French, Nouchi, indexicality, Côte d'Ivoire] [source] Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of InequalityJOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2006Lisa Philips [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||