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Madsen, Ole Jacob. "Psychologisation and Critique in Modern-day Western Culture." Social and Personality Psychology Compass 8, no. 5 (May 2014): 193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12103.
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Sciumbata, Matteo, James T. Weedon, Giovanni Bogota-Angel, and Carina Hoorn. "Linking modern-day relicts to a Miocene mangrove community of western Amazonia." Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101, no. 1 (January 27, 2021): 123–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00470-z.
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Hiebert, Frances F. "Beyond a Post-Modern Critique of Modern Missions: The Nineteenth Century Revisited." Missiology: An International Review 25, no. 3 (July 1997): 259–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969702500301.
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The nineteenth century was the great century for Western Christian missions. Missionaries were held in high esteem for their contribution to the “enlightenment” of non-Western peoples. But in the twentieth century, missions became the whipping boy of secular post-modern critics. In a drastic swing of the pendulum, the social sciences began to deny their own Enlightenment theories about “civilizing” the so-called primitive cultures. Absolute cultural relativism and cultural absolutism became the order of the day. Changing another culture in any way, especially the religion, was deemed cultural genocide. Missionaries came in for an exceptionally large share of the blame. Now, however, going beyond the post-modern critique, scholars who are converts of the modern missionary movement and others are calling for a more objective, fair evaluation of it. The history of missions has moved from respect to reproach to reinterpretation.
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Xess, Somila, and Shipra Shrivastava. "Role of fetal craniotomy in modern day obstetrics: case series." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 8, no. 4 (March 26, 2019): 1679. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20191241.
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Although obstructed labor in vanished from the western world where the destructive operations are obsolete and not needed, in developing countries like India obstructed labor with dead fetus and severe infection is a sad reality, and destructive operations are an essential part of obstetric practice and cannot be wished away. In many situations they should be a preferred option to cesarean delivery which needs much better facilities and greater morbidity. Here authors present a case series of three patients who reported with obstructed labour and IUFD. Fetal craniotomy was done and thus maternal morbidity reduced. Craniotomy offers less postpartum morbidity, lesser expertise and resources and therefore better in cases presenting with obstructed labour and dead baby in developing countries.
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Welch, Natalie M., Jessica Siegele, and Robin Hardin. "For the Sga-Du-Gi (Community): Modern Day Cherokee Stickball." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 41, no. 2 (January 1, 2017): 93–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.41.2.welch.
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Tucked away in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina on the Cherokee Indian Reservation is a living tradition that predates the “discovery” of America: the game of stickball. Researchers have reported on the sport and the complex rituals that surround it since the early-twentieth century. Often referred to as the “little brother of war,” it is much more than a game. With the purpose of uncovering the reasons for playing the game and its larger meaning as part of players' Cherokee identity and culture, the primary investigator (a native of Cherokee and an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee), interviewed eleven current and former stickball players about what stickball means to them and its importance to Cherokee culture. Three main themes emerged: (1) cultural preservation; (2) community reinforcement; and (3) ethnic identity affirmation. This study exemplifies the importance of sport as a tool for cultural preservation and explores the emphasis and integration of the game in the Cherokee community.
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Capper, Charles, Anthony La Vopa, and Nicholas Phillipson. "A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS." Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 1 (March 8, 2007): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244306000990.
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This issue marks an important stage in the Journal's development. In our original mission statement we recognized that Modern Intellectual History was likely in the first instance to be devoted to publishing work on intellectual history that was essentially Western in orientation and we looked forward to the day in which it would be possible to extend our reach to non-Western as well as Western history.
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Møller, Jørgen. "Medieval Roots of the Modern State: The Conditional Effects of Geopolitical Pressure on Early Modern State Building." Social Science History 42, no. 2 (2018): 295–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2018.7.
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The modern state arose in Western Europe and was transplanted to European settler colonies. The question about why Western Europe developed high-capacity states bound by the rule of law remains a core concern of modern social science. Prior scholarship dealing with this issue has generally favored different variants of a war-and-state-making perspective. However, generalized geopolitical pressure does little to explain why the modern state arose in Europe and not in other historical multistate systems. This article argues that the European outcome was conditional on the prior existence of “medieval communalism,” that is, on strong norms and institutions of communal representation, based on units such as parishes and towns. It was due to these initial conditions that geopolitical pressure facilitated not only a strengthening of state capacity but also the development of checks on state power in the form of the rule of law. This argument is first theorized and then illustrated empirically using a number of examples from both within and beyond Europe. Against this backdrop, the implications for present-day state building are briefly discussed.
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Xu, Xiaoqun. "‘National Essence’ vs ‘Science’: Chinese Native Physicians' Fight for Legitimacy, 1912–37." Modern Asian Studies 31, no. 4 (October 1997): 847–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00017182.
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The medical profession in modern China comprised two radically different schools—modern (Western) medicine and native medicine. The difference in philosophy, theory, and technique made a conflict between the two schools almost inevitable, and the conflict was intensified by the modernization process that was quickened during the Republican period. Western-trained or modern doctors advocated national salvation through science and denounced native medicine as superstitious, unscientific, and an impediment to the development of medical science in China. On the other hand, native medical practitioners insisted that what they learned and practiced was part of the national essence (guocui) and should be protected against the cultural invasion of imperialism (diguo zhuyi wenhua qinlue) including Western medicine. To be sure, both sides used such rhetoric to camouflage the business competition between them, but this rivalry and its implications did point to a profound cultural conflict between Chinese tradition and Western influence in China's modernization. It epitomized a burning issue of the day: whether or not China's modernization meant Westernization and whether a respectable position for China in the modern world was to be achieved through Westernization or preservation of what was regarded or claimed as national heritage.
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Noor, Wahyudin. "Menelisik Sumbangan Islam Bagi Peradaban Modern." MAWA'IZH: JURNAL DAKWAH DAN PENGEMBANGAN SOSIAL KEMANUSIAAN 8, no. 1 (July 1, 2017): 75–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.32923/maw.v8i1.698.
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Islamic contributions to modern civilization, include: first, the contribution of Islam in modern science in a system of belief based on monotheism; secondly, in the political sphere, that Islam and democracy are essentially compatible, viable, and should be seen as a continuation or development of the Islamic "democratic" model; thirdly, for Islamic economics, starting from pioneering thinking to the continued to application of the system as part of the economic development of Islamic contributions to modern civilization; fourth, for social issues divided over human rights and women's status in Islam it opens up a golden opportunity for the Muslim community to radically revise the whole system of traditional thought toward a new system of thought, both in the Islamic horizon and the historical horizon of comparison; comparisons between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and specifically the comparison between Islam and modern Western achievements to the present day.
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Günther, Torsten, Cristina Valdiosera, Helena Malmström, Irene Ureña, Ricardo Rodriguez-Varela, Óddny Osk Sverrisdóttir, Evangelia A. Daskalaki, et al. "Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 38 (September 8, 2015): 11917–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509851112.
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The consequences of the Neolithic transition in Europe—one of the most important cultural changes in human prehistory—is a subject of great interest. However, its effect on prehistoric and modern-day people in Iberia, the westernmost frontier of the European continent, remains unresolved. We present, to our knowledge, the first genome-wide sequence data from eight human remains, dated to between 5,500 and 3,500 years before present, excavated in the El Portalón cave at Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. We show that these individuals emerged from the same ancestral gene pool as early farmers in other parts of Europe, suggesting that migration was the dominant mode of transferring farming practices throughout western Eurasia. In contrast to central and northern early European farmers, the Chalcolithic El Portalón individuals additionally mixed with local southwestern hunter–gatherers. The proportion of hunter–gatherer-related admixture into early farmers also increased over the course of two millennia. The Chalcolithic El Portalón individuals showed greatest genetic affinity to modern-day Basques, who have long been considered linguistic and genetic isolates linked to the Mesolithic whereas all other European early farmers show greater genetic similarity to modern-day Sardinians. These genetic links suggest that Basques and their language may be linked with the spread of agriculture during the Neolithic. Furthermore, all modern-day Iberian groups except the Basques display distinct admixture with Caucasus/Central Asian and North African groups, possibly related to historical migration events. The El Portalón genomes uncover important pieces of the demographic history of Iberia and Europe and reveal how prehistoric groups relate to modern-day people.
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Adisa, Toyin Ajibade, Olatunji David Adekoya, and Olajumoke Okoya. "Modern-day slavery? The work-life conflict of domestic workers in Nigeria." Gender in Management: An International Journal 36, no. 4 (May 6, 2021): 519–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-02-2020-0054.
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Purpose The trend of domestic employment thrives almost in every society. It is most common in developing countries and Nigeria is no exception. This paper aims to examine the nature of the role of a domestic worker in Nigeria and the work-life conflict issues involved in such work. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a qualitative research approach to examine the nature of the role of domestic workers and the associated work-life conflict issues. Findings The findings show that the nature of the jobs of domestic workers in Nigeria gives rise to a situation of modern-day slavery in which an employee works without a formal employment contract, with little or no rights to private time. Long and unstructured working hours, employers’ perceptions about domestic workers and a huge workload fuel and exacerbate work-life conflict amongst domestic workers in Nigeria. Research limitations/implications The extent to which the findings of this research can be generalised is constrained by the limited and selected sample of the research and the research context. Practical implications The primacy of the employer over the employee in domestic employment means that both time and work-based conflicts continue to buffer work-life conflict if domestic workers’ working hours remain unscheduled and their employers’ perceptions about them remain unchanged. This invariably has a negative impact on the domestic workers’ health and productivity. Therefore, domestic employment should be regulated by law and domestic workers should be treated like other formal employees. Originality/value This study contributes to the debates on the work-life conflict by highlighting the nature of the role of domestic workers in a non-western context, Nigeria and provides a nuanced insight into the work-life conflict issues involved in such work. The findings add conceptual thought and empirical evidence to the debate on work-life conflict.
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Elewa, Ahmed. "Articulating “Responsibility” as a Prerequisite for the Arab Spring." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29, no. 3 (July 1, 2012): 42–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v29i3.318.
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In delineating the causes behind nonmilitant uprising and revolution in the Middle East, I propose that the import, the Arabization and Islamization of the term responsibility, as a key catalyst. Although the concept of responsibility is fundamental to the message of Islam, it is alluded to by an assortment of terms that seem to have fallen out of the day-to-day vernacular of Arab communities. The adoption of the term mas’uliyyah has served to express this fundamental concept. Furthermore, given its origin in post-Enlightenment Western political philosophy, the term provides a rare conceptual bridge between regions termed Western and Middle Eastern, in addition to being a linguistic vehicle capable of coarticulating modern Western and traditional Islamic thoughts. In this article, I trace the Arabization and Islamization of the term responsibility to nineteenth-century nahDah literature and its current establishment in different Islamic currents and schools. Moreover, I explain the utility of the term to express authentically Islamic vocabulary that has been forsaken in political terminology of the past two centuries.I propose that the presence of this now familiar term was instrumental in articulating the necessity of political change in a manner that resonated with millions of Arabs educated according to a modern Western model of education. Finally, I predict that the term responsibility will allow for a “new kinda fiqh” appropriate for an activated citizenry.
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Elewa, Ahmed. "Articulating “Responsibility” as a Prerequisite for the Arab Spring." American Journal of Islam and Society 29, no. 3 (July 1, 2012): 42–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v29i3.318.
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In delineating the causes behind nonmilitant uprising and revolution in the Middle East, I propose that the import, the Arabization and Islamization of the term responsibility, as a key catalyst. Although the concept of responsibility is fundamental to the message of Islam, it is alluded to by an assortment of terms that seem to have fallen out of the day-to-day vernacular of Arab communities. The adoption of the term mas’uliyyah has served to express this fundamental concept. Furthermore, given its origin in post-Enlightenment Western political philosophy, the term provides a rare conceptual bridge between regions termed Western and Middle Eastern, in addition to being a linguistic vehicle capable of coarticulating modern Western and traditional Islamic thoughts. In this article, I trace the Arabization and Islamization of the term responsibility to nineteenth-century nahDah literature and its current establishment in different Islamic currents and schools. Moreover, I explain the utility of the term to express authentically Islamic vocabulary that has been forsaken in political terminology of the past two centuries.I propose that the presence of this now familiar term was instrumental in articulating the necessity of political change in a manner that resonated with millions of Arabs educated according to a modern Western model of education. Finally, I predict that the term responsibility will allow for a “new kinda fiqh” appropriate for an activated citizenry.
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Artashkina, Tamara A., and Bofei Shang. "Specific Features of Festive Culture in Modern China." ICONI, no. 1 (2019): 184–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.33779/2658-4824.2019.1.184-197.
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The history of XX-century China can be divided into several periods that greatly altered the path of China’s historical development: Xinhai Revolution, Anti-Japanese war, civil war, establishment of PRC, Cultural Revolution, policy of reforms and openness. Uneven development of contemporary China has had its influence on Chinese holidays. The authors consider the concept of “national holidays of China” a basic category. In the Chinese language, a “holiday” is an unusual day or days connected with something. All national Chinese holidays fall into two categories: government and popular. Chinese government holidays include official holidays established by law; they are days-off for all Chinese citizens. Currently there are 7 government holidays in China and many popular holidays. Popular holidays include traditional holidays, occupational or social holidays, holidays of national minorities or others. Not all Chinese citizens have days-off during these popular holidays. There are two aspects of cultural problems in modern China: a big gap between urban culture and rural cultures; there is a problem of active borrowing and introduction of Western culture into the national culture of China. In particular, many western holidays have intervened into the tissue of Chinese culture. However, western holidays do not alter the cultural meaning of Chinese traditional holidays; they have acquired Chinese features and enriched the life of young Chinese people. Chinese festive culture is transformed within the following areas: traditional holidays are replaced with innovative ones; modern holidays are formed under the influence of new social and political conditions and cultural globalization; transformation of traditional holidays changes either their quantity or their content and cultural meaning. However, the authors have come to the conclusion that despite the transformational processes the cultural meaning and main cultural functions of traditional holidays are preserved: reunion of families and, hence, the reunion of the whole nation.
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Linda, Svitlana, and Olga Mychajłyszyn. "Visual symbols of new identity in cities of modern Ukraine during the interwar period." Budownictwo i Architektura 16, no. 3 (December 2, 2017): 065–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24358/bud-arch_17_163_07.
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In the interwar period western and eastern parts of the modern-day Ukraine were included into two countries – the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union. The development of cities of modern-day Ukraine during 1920-30th took place according to various ideological and cultural models. Changes in “cultural models” and ideological guidelines, as well as the departure from forms of traditional society during that period can be viewed as associated but semantically inconsistent targets; those carried out in each region in different sociopolitical conditions and with different directions of socio-cultural transformations; those that can be seen most clearly in the spatial planning of the cities. Approaches to the planning of Western Ukrainian cities, based on the synthesis of historically formed traditional environment, identified urban environment as European integral element of globalization process and were interpreted as an idea, alternative to socialistic internationalism that was consistently implemented in the Soviet Ukraine at that time. The process of formation of national and collective identity was visualized by “blending” and modernization of architectural environment layers, entry or expulsion of architectural sites of different ages, which symbolized the socio-cultural changes, both were part of the interaction of social and cultural systems.
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Cope, Michael R., Scott R. Sanders, Carol Ward, Kirk D. Young, and Haylie M. June. "In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Socio-Historical Case Study on Rapid Population Growth in Two Neighboring Population Centers in the Western United States." Societies 11, no. 1 (January 9, 2021): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc11010005.
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US Census population estimates show that every state in the Western US reported significant population growth increases over the past two decades. Furthermore, Western population growth represents one of the largest and most significant US demographic trends in recent decades. For many Western US communities, this increase in population growth has resulted in significant changes to its residents’ day-to-day lived experience. Dramatic population growth can change the types of services available, economic opportunities, and perceived satisfaction of communities. This change in the lived experience of a community is perhaps most pronounced when small rural communities undergo a rapid increase in population size. To that end, we present a socio-historical narrative case study examining how population growth-historical and contemporary-has shaped residents’ lived experience in two neighboring population centers in the modern rural West: Utah’s Heber Valley and Park City, Utah.
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Cope, Michael R., Scott R. Sanders, Carol Ward, Kirk D. Young, and Haylie M. June. "In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Socio-Historical Case Study on Rapid Population Growth in Two Neighboring Population Centers in the Western United States." Societies 11, no. 1 (January 9, 2021): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc11010005.
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US Census population estimates show that every state in the Western US reported significant population growth increases over the past two decades. Furthermore, Western population growth represents one of the largest and most significant US demographic trends in recent decades. For many Western US communities, this increase in population growth has resulted in significant changes to its residents’ day-to-day lived experience. Dramatic population growth can change the types of services available, economic opportunities, and perceived satisfaction of communities. This change in the lived experience of a community is perhaps most pronounced when small rural communities undergo a rapid increase in population size. To that end, we present a socio-historical narrative case study examining how population growth-historical and contemporary-has shaped residents’ lived experience in two neighboring population centers in the modern rural West: Utah’s Heber Valley and Park City, Utah.
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Hatta, S. Mohamed. "A Malay Crosscultural Worldview and Forensic Review of Amok." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 30, no. 4 (August 1996): 505–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679609065024.
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Objective: This article attempts to review the criteria for the amok phenomenon since the late 15th century and how its meaning has evolved into its present day usage. Method: A literature search was conducted examining and quoting Western sources vis-a-vis amok in the Malay context, ancient and modern. Results: This crosscultural approach overlaps with the forensic aspects of the phenomenon. This is inevitable as the word ‘amok’ itself brings to mind the phenomenon of violence which most often results in the breaching of the law. The changing face of amok as defined by Western authors is highlighted and compared to amuk as understood by modern Malays. Conclusions: It is inferred that amok as understood and classified in modern psychiatry has a different criteria set when compared and contrasted with the Malay understanding of amuk. With the broadening of the definition of amok, it is finally portrayed as being a syndrome that belongs to the East as well as the West.
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Pillai, Shanthini, and Bernardo E. Brown. "The Apostolic Vicariate of Western Siam and the Rise of Catholicism in Malaysia and Singapore." International Journal of Asian Christianity 1, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25424246-00101004.
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This article examines the emergence of the Catholic Church in Malaysia and Singapore in the modern period through an exploration of the Apostolic Vicariate of Western Siam (1841–1888). The establishment of this Catholic institution—a temporary territorial jurisdiction in missionary regions that precedes the creation of new dioceses—was key to advancing the transition of the Church from its older colonial model towards a modern national Church. Focusing on the work conducted by French missionaries of the Missions Étrangères de Paris (mep) over these five decades, we analyze the process of developing a local clergy and setting up the socio-cultural scaffolding of the contemporary Catholic Church in the Malay Peninsula. We pay special attention to howmepmissionaries skilfully navigated their missionary activities through encounters with Malay rulers and British colonial officers to secure the creation of a Catholic elite independent of the PortuguesePadroado. Our argument suggests that the apostolic vicariate and the dynamism of the Frenchmepmissionaries in colonial Malaya opened up the pathway for the rise of the ethnic Catholic elites in modern-day Malaysia and Singapore.
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Kumar, Dr Amit. "Evolution of the Modern Voter: A Branding Perspective." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 5 (April 11, 2021): 1604–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i5.2136.
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The concept of branding is to be found in every aspect of our lives and on a day-to-day basis. It has made its presence felt in almost every domain of human existence to such an extent that a sense of surety and assuredness seeps in whenever we buy a branded product over an unbranded one based on our positive experience related to its usage. The concept of branding could be applied to the field of politics as well in the modern times based on the evolution of politics. Political branding has found its place in the modern scheme of things when one talks about the contemporary facet of polity. Such a phenomenon is quite popular in the western democracies and has been a late entrant in the Indian scenario but the effectiveness of the same is second to none. This research paper would delve into the rise of political branding pertaining to India thereby exploring its effectiveness in turning the tide as far as existing patterns of voting are concerned which were very much visible in the last general election of the nation. The work would also focus upon the performance of the regional political brands and how the electorate of India has came to vote differently in the two sets of election, national and state.
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Fillafer, Franz L. "Whose Enlightenment?" Austrian History Yearbook 48 (April 2017): 111–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0067237817000017.
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The Enlightenment seems out of kilter. Until fairly recently, its trajectories were beguilingly simple and straightforward. Devised by Western metropolitan masterminds, the Enlightenment was piously appropriated by their latter-day apprentices in Central and Eastern Europe. This process of benign percolation made modern science, political liberty, and religious toleration trickle down to East-Central Europe. The self-orientalizing of nineteenth-century Central European intellectuals reinforced this impression, making concepts that were ostensibly authentic and pristine at their “Western” sources seem garbled and skewed once appropriated in their region.
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Vuorinen, H. S., P. S. Juuti, and T. S. Katko. "History of water and health from ancient civilizations to modern times." Water Supply 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2007.006.
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This paper examines the influence of water on public health throughout history. Farming, settling down and building of villages and towns meant the start of the problems mankind suffers from this very day – how to get drinkable water for humans and cattle and how to manage the waste we produce. The availability of water in large quantities has been considered an essential part of a civilized way of life in different periods: Roman baths needed a lot of water as does the current Western way of life with water closets and showers. The importance of good quality drinking water was realized already in antiquity, yet the importance of proper sanitation was not understood until the 19th century.
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Urban, Hugh B. "The Beast with Two Backs: Aleister Crowley, Sex Magic and the Exhaustion of Modernity." Nova Religio 7, no. 3 (March 1, 2004): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.7.3.7.
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ABSTRACT: Infamous for his drug use and extreme sexual practices, and proclaiming himself the ““Great Beast 666,”” Aleister Crowley remains to this day one of the most influential and yet most often misunderstood figures in the history of Western new religious movements. This article offers a fresh approach to Crowley, by placing him within contemporary debates about modernism and postmodernism. By no means the outcast enemy of modern Western society so often depicted in the media, Crowley was, I argue, a stunning reflection of some of the most acute cultural contradictions at the heart of modern Western civilization in the early twentieth century. A uniquely Janus-faced character, he reflects both the ““Faustian”” will of modernism as well as its tragic failure and exhaustion at mid-century in the aftermath of the two World Wars. Where does our modern world belong——to exhaustion or ascent?——Its manifoldness and unrest conditioned by the attainment of the highest level of consciousness. ——Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power1 The point about Crowley is that he seems to contain all these sorts of ideas and identities——indeed most of the vices of the Twentieth Century——and he was dead at the end of 1947. ——Snoo Wilson, author of the play ““The Beast”” (1974)2
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Joseph, Simon J. "“ ‘Knowledge is Truth’: A Course in Miracles as Neo-Gnostic Scripture”." GNOSIS 2, no. 1 (March 22, 2017): 94–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451859x-12340028.
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A Course in Miraclesrepresents a modern-day neo-gnostic scripture that reflects significant trends in contemporary Western religiosity, especially the quest for alternative forms of esoteric “spiritual” knowledge and experience in a nominally Christian or post-Christian Western world. While this text has largely been ignored or marginalized in mainstream scholarship, a critical evaluation of theCourse, its editing, reception, and contemporary interpretation not only represents a fascinating case study in how “texts” become invested with “scriptural” authority, but illustrates how theCourse’s claims about Jesus and God exemplify the gnosticizing trajectories in the contemporary New Age movement.
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Adegbosin, Adeyinka Emmanuel, David Plummer, Matthew Yau, Richard Franklin, Reinie Cordier, and Jing Sun. "Larrikins? Wowsers? Hipsters? Snags? What does it mean to be a ‘real man’ in modern-day Australia?" Journal of Sociology 55, no. 3 (March 29, 2019): 551–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783319837601.
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Gender is constructed from social and cultural meanings that dynamically shift and vary. Previous work has assumed that the constructions of masculinity in Australia are like those in other Western societies, and typically focus on qualities such as physical strength, courage and sometimes military engagement. This study explores whether these assumptions hold, by conducting telephone interviews among 617 Queensland men, aged 18 years and above, across all geographical parts of Queensland. This survey was administered in 2013, as part of the Queensland Social Survey series. The study explores the diverse meanings associated with being a ‘real man’ given by the survey participants. Three main dimensions emerged from the thematic analysis: physicality; personality and character; social roles and relationships. The study confirmed that masculinities are dynamic and complex. Responses revealed a surprising emphasis on character and morality 44.5% (n = 684) as defining manhood, as against physical qualities 13.7% (n = 153).
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Vul, M. Ya, Oleg Zurian, and V. O. Starynskyi. "DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS, MODERN STATE AND PROSPECTS of FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN OIL & GAS REGION OF UKRAINE." Мінеральні ресурси України, no. 1 (March 30, 2018): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31996/mru.2018.1.33-38.
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The article summarizes the features of the development of geological exploration and the formation of a hydrocarbon resource base in the Western oil and gas region of Ukraine, the oldest in Europe. The period, which is being considered, begins in 1771 and is divided into several blocks: until 1945, until the 70s of the 20th century, until the 90s of the 20th century and to the present day. In each of the blocks, the main parameters characterizing the organizational structure and volumes of geological exploration are determined. Possibilities for the successful development of geological exploration in the indicated region and the need to increase them threefold are justified.
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Pan, Lin, and Philip Seargeant. "Is English a threat to Chinese language and culture?" English Today 28, no. 3 (September 2012): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078412000302.
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In an article published in English Today in 2005, Niu and Woolf contend that: EFL is a modern day Trojan horse filled with EFL teachers/soldiers or missionaries, armed with English words rather than bullets, intent upon re-colonizing the world to remake it in the image of Western democracy. China has brought the Trojan Horse within its gates and the army of EFL teachers is hard at work Westernizing China.
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Habib, Irfan, and Faiz Habib. "Mapping the canal system of Fīroz Shāh including an abortive Sarasvati ‘restoration’." Studies in People's History 4, no. 2 (October 13, 2017): 146–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2348448917725851.
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The aim is to collect all information from contemporary and near-contemporary sources about the canals of Fīroz Shāh (reigned 1351–88), so as to map them as accurately as possible. The area involved includes Indian Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and western UP. The paper also gives the account of a massive Sarasvati-restoration project, which like its paler modern-day successor (undertaken by the Haryana government), was a total failure.
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Kapović, Mate. "Tones in the South Slavic languages." Slavic and Balkan Linguistics, no. 3 (2019): 205–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2658-3372.2019.3.6.
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The aim of the article is to present basic (albeit not exhaustive) data on the tonal accent in the modern Western South Slavic languages in synchronic and diachronic perspective, with the main focus on Štokavian/Čakavian/Kajkavian and New Štokavian in particular. Apart from that, the author briefly reviews relevant present-day scientific works and touches upon some typical problems, especially those causing confusion, puzzlement and contradictions in research today.
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Scuderi, Louis A., Christine K. Laudadio, and Peter J. Fawcett. "Monitoring Playa Lake Inundation in the Western United States: Modern Analogues to Late-Holocene Lake Level Change." Quaternary Research 73, no. 1 (January 2010): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2009.04.004.
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Closed basin playas are among the most sensitive hydrologic systems globally and are excellent indicators of current and past climatic variability. This variability can significantly impact hydrologic regimes and biotic communities, and is often expressed in lake-bed deposits and shoreline features. We analyzed two playa basins in western North America that lie to either side of the current divide between monsoon and westerly precipitation regimes. Using a 23-year sequence of Landsat images at a 16-day time step, we determined the playa inundation response to varying precipitation inputs. Our results show that a strongly contrasting lake-inundation response occurs in lake basins separated by only 200 km. The Animas/Lordsburg Basin shows a marked lake-area increase in response to winter precipitation events, while the more southerly Palomas Basin shows a stronger response to monsoonal and El Niño-type events. This sensitivity to different input sources over short distances may explain some of the apparent asynchronous behavior of playa response found in lake records. Comprehensive regional-scale inundation records could be used to understand the dynamics of playa inundation events and how these events are linked to atmospheric circulation, and possibly to understand the observed asynchronous behavior of lake basins during the late Pleistocene and Holocene.
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Speckhard, A. "Understanding Suicide Terrorism." Nervenheilkunde 36, no. 04 (2017): 245–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1627010.
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SummaryAs a terror tactic, suicide terrorism is one of the most lethal as it relies on a human being to deliver and detonate the device. Suicide terrorism is not confined to a single region or religion. On the contrary, it has a global appeal, and in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan it has come to represent an almost daily reality as it has become the weapon of choice for some of the most dreaded terrorist organizations in the world, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. Drawing on over two decades of extensive field research in five distinct world regions, specifically the Middle East, Western Europe, North America, Russia, and the Balkans, the author discusses the origins of modern day suicide terrorism, motivational factors behind suicide terrorism, its global migration, and its appeal to modern-day terrorist groups to embrace it as a tactic.
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Salimova, Leila F. "THE BODY IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN THEATRE: CULTURAL VARIABILITY OF SHAME." Articult, no. 1 (2021): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2021-1-19-31.
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Modern scientific knowledge approaches the study of the physical and aesthetic bodies with a considerable body of texts. However, on the territory of the theater, the body is still considered exclusively from the point of view of the actor's artistic tools. Theatrical physicality and the character of physical empathy in the theater are not limited to the boundaries of the performing arts, but exist in close relationship with the visual and empirical experience of the spectator, performer, and director. The aesthetic and ethical aspect of the attitude to the body in the history of theatrical art has repeatedly changed, including under the influence of changing cultural criteria of "shameful". The culmination of the demarcation of theatrical shame, it would seem, should be an act of pure art, independent of the moral restrictions of society. However, the experiments of modern theater continue to face archaic ethical views. The article attempts to understand the cultural variability of such a phenomenon as shame in its historical and cultural extent using examples from theater art from antiquity to the present day.
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Shaikh, Muzaffar A. "Ethics of Decision-Making in Islamic and Western Environments." American Journal of Islam and Society 5, no. 1 (September 1, 1988): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v5i1.2883.
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IntroductionWith the advent of ultra-modern communications technology and publicawareness of suspicious business practices, the question of ethics in decisionmakinghas become extremely important in today’s business world, incommercial as well as government sectors. A. M. Senia (1403 AH/ 1982AC) agrees with Dr. Mark Pastin of Arizona State University, that the keyto the success of American business is to divert its attention to the studyof, and implementation of ethics instead of turning to Japan for innovativeideas. Dr. Pastin concludes that the employees are more and more concernedabout the worthwhileness of their work rather than their economic survival.He suggests that by giving “real world examples-if, for instance, a firmadopts its own stricter guidelines for certain governmental regulations, thenit can meet the stringent governmental requirements and in the end, increasethe firm’s share of market. A clear proof of increasing awareness of the ethicsof decision-making is evident by the fact that the Center for Public and PrivateSector Ethics has acquired great popularity since its inception in 1400 AH/1980AC.Decision-making is an integral part of both day-to-day and long-termaffairs of a single individual or a group of individuals. Factors such as decisionmagnitude (major versus minor), decision impact (high versus low), thedecision-making body itself (a single person, a family, or a committee ofpersons), and decision environment (under certainty, risk, uncertainty, orcompetition) etc., are the determinants of whether or not a single individualor a group of individuals makes a decision. While Green and Tull (1407AH/1987 AC) and others break down the decision process into several steps(i.e., recognition of the problem, generation of alternatives, evaluation ofalternatives, and implementation of the selected alternative), the evaluation ...
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Joseph, Simon J. "American Gnosis: Jesus Mysticism in A Course in Miracles." Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 4, no. 2 (November 13, 2019): 165–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451859x-12340072.
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Abstract Since its publication in 1975, A Course in Miracles (ACIM) has continued to grow in popularity as a major feature of New Age spirituality. While the text of the Course is not a direct imitation of any particular form of ancient Gnosticism, A Course in Miracles represents an example of the emergence, reception, and popularity of gnosticizing trajectories of thought in the New Age movement. As a modern-day neo-Gnostic text, A Course in Miracles reflects significant trends in contemporary Western religiosity, especially the quest for alternative forms of esoteric, spiritual, and mystical knowledge and experience in a nominally Christian or post-Christian Western world increasingly disillusioned with traditional orthodox theology, Christology, and ethics.
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Belova, Alla. "GENDER VS GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN MODERN ENGLISH." Studia Linguistica, no. 17 (2020): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/studling2020.17.9-21.
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The article highlights paradigm shift in the Category of Gender triggered by expansion of gender roles spectrum in western world. This category is not reduced to the binary opposition of masculine and feminine any more and does not balance binary oppositions of grammatical gender and biological sex. To categorize new gender identities English naming and word-formation patterns and basic gender terms (male, female, masculine, feminine) were used. Some initialisms, firstly LGTB, gender derivatives were borrowed by other languages as English neologisms. In the 21st century gender-related coinages in Modern English are mushrooming. Mass Media give wide coverage of LGBT movement, fight for their rights, contribution of celebrities to spread and popularization of LGBT culture. New gender identities triggered extension of the initialism LGTB to LGTBQIA+ where the mathematical symbol stands for other diversities unindentified by letters and words yet. Gender diversity will pose the question about appropriate pronouns, so changes within grammatical gender. Mass media texts give numerous examples of increasing gender terms combinability in English, new contexts and make it possible to conclude that LGBT lexico-semantc group in present-day English is developing rapidly. Social trends, naming patterns in English, cognitive mechanisms behind them pose multiple questions about categorization, correlation of biological sex, gender diversities and grammatical gender in English and other languages.
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Nikiforov, Konstantin. "Modernization mixed with nationalism." Balcanica, no. 45 (2014): 443–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/balc1445443n.
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This essay reflects on a particular manner in which modernisation have taken place in the Balkans in modern history, from the 1878 Berlin Congress onwards. The Balkan countries faced twofold difficulties in their development: they had to overcome their backwardness stemming from the centuries of the Ottoman yoke and catch up with modern Western Europe, and resolve their numerous mutual territorial and political disputes. The latter task was especially difficult due to the constant interference in Balkan affairs on the part of Great Powers. This interference further aggravated nationalistic tensions between the Balkan states. The peculiar mixture of modernisation efforts and nationalism remains to this day when the entire region strives to join the European Union.
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Karababa, Eminegül. "Marketing and consuming flowers in the Ottoman Empire." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 7, no. 2 (May 18, 2015): 280–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-03-2014-0009.
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the marketing and consumption of flowers as a commodity from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century in the Ottoman context, a non-Western context, and to identify the specificities and similarities to the wider regional context with which it interacts. Design/methodology/approach – Through utilising secondary historical data a two-level analysis is conducted. The first level provides information on the institutional actors such as flower merchants, the state, the flower research institutes, market channels and popular culture and their practices. The second level of analysis concerns the flower consumer. Findings – The paper shows that flower consumption and marketing in an early modern non-Western context was not totally divergent from its “Western” counterparts which share the same regional context, i.e. the Mediterranean. As part of the late Renaissance Mediterranean world, the flower cultivator as a leisure-time consumer is reminiscent of the “Renaissance man”, characterised as someone who consumes science, aesthetics and writing in his leisure time. However, Ottoman markets diverge from their counterparts through the formation of an institution, similar to a modern-day accreditation institution, which had an active role in generating standards, brands and norms for the flower market. Research limitations/implications – The paper is mainly focussed on Istanbul, the capital of the empire and a large city by contemporary standards. Generalisation to the Ottoman context would require further studies. Originality/value – The paper is original because marketing and consumption in non-Western histories, such as the Ottoman context, have been a neglected area, mainly because of a tendency to locate progress and modernisation in early modern west.
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Eccles, Bernard. "Astrological Physiognomy from Ptolemy to the Present Day." Culture and Cosmos 07, no. 02 (October 2003): 15–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.0207.0205.
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Physiognomy, the art of judging character or destiny through physical appearance, has had a long and varied history. Although not strictly astrological in all its forms, it is usually found combined with astrology, numerology, palmistry and other popular forms of fortune-telling; and, like all of these, it is unlikely to become extinct despite being ridiculed by modern science. Equally, attempts to legitimise and modernise it in recent times, usually for the purposes of identifying criminals or other social undesirables, are unlikely to render it wholly respectable either. For the greater part of its history, between the classical era and the eighteenth century, physiognomy was seen as an integral part of astrology: physical evidence and vindication of the theory of planetary influences. The aim of this paper is to trace the principal lines of transmission for the lore of planetary physiognomy within the Western astrological tradition, with particular emphasis on the descriptions given for Mars and Saturn. Astrological tradition is highly conservative, with data passed down through centuries of use almost unaltered; but in some cases, as will be shown, the material seems to have been modified and added to in significant ways at certain stages in its history, and to have been influenced or perhaps deliberately rewritten to reflect the prevailing religious or political views of the time.
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ITZKOVITZ, SHALEV, RON MILO, NADAV KASHTAN, REUVEN LEVITT, AMIR LAHAV, and URI ALON. "RECURRING HARMONIC WALKS AND NETWORK MOTIFS IN WESTERN MUSIC." Advances in Complex Systems 09, no. 01n02 (March 2006): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021952590600063x.
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Western harmony is comprised of sequences of chords, which obey grammatical rules. It is of interest to develop a compact representation of the harmonic movement of chord sequences. Here, we apply an approach from analysis of complex networks, known as "network motifs" to define repeating dynamical patterns in musical harmony. We describe each piece as a graph, where the nodes are chords and the directed edges connect chords which occur consecutively in the piece. We detect several patterns, each of which is a walk on this graph, which recur in diverse musical pieces from the Baroque to modern-day popular music. These patterns include cycles of three or four nodes, with up to two mutual edges (edges that point in both directions). Cliques and patterns with more than two mutual edges are rare. Some of these universal patterns of harmony are well known and correspond to basic principles of music theory such as hierarchy and directionality. This approach can be extended to search for recurring patterns in other musical components and to study other dynamical systems that can be represented as walks on graphs.
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POŠKAITĖ, Loreta. "Filial Piety (xiao 孝) for the Contemporary and Global World." Asian Studies 2, no. 1 (May 30, 2014): 99–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2014.2.1.99-114.
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The relationships between children and parents seem to be one of the most urgent issues in the contemporary world, spanning from the United States and European countries to East Asian societies, as a consequence of the transformation of traditional family ethics, values and institutions brought about by the processes of modernization and globalization. The present paper aims to reveal the ways and problems of the application of xiao 孝 (filial piety) ethics in the contemporary Western and Chinese societies, as reflected in the works by a number of famous Western Protestant missionaries, religious philosophers, sinologists and present-day Lithuanian Sinology students, and counterbalance their views with the insights of contemporary Chinese sociologists. The place of xiao in the contemporary inter-cultural dialogue will be discussed from the point of view of dialogue between religions, theory and practice, Western and Chinese culture, traditional and modern societies and values.
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Ardhana, I. Ketut, and I. Nyoman Wijaya. "Indian Influences on Balinese Culture : The Role of Hinduism and Buddhism in Present Day Bali." International Research Journal of Management, IT & Social Sciences 4, no. 1 (January 21, 2017): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/irjmis.v4i1.360.
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Indian culture has dominantly influenced the Indonesian people, particularly in the western part of the archipelago. This, which started centuries ago, can still be seen in the peoples’ daily lives in social, cultural, economic and political matters. Both the Hindu and Buddhist lessons have been practiced in Bali, although it is argued that the Buddhist lessons had been developed earlier than the Hindu ones. These developments have strongly characterized Balinese daily life, so, it is very important to understand how the people anticipate and solve some crucial issues regarding the processes of modernization and globalization. There are some important questions that need to be addressed on the Indian influences in strengthening the Balinese culture from the earlier periods until the modern and even postmodern times. In this case, the specific questions are: Firstly, how did the Balinese accept these two lessons in their daily lives in the context of Balinization processes? Secondly, what kinds of tangible and intangible cultures of the Hindu and Buddhist lessons can be seen in the present day Bali? Thirdly, how do they strengthen the Bali identity or Balinization, known as “Ajeg Bali”? Through this analysis, it is expected to have a better understanding of the issues of social, cultural, economic and political changes in Indonesia in general and Bali in particular in modern and postmodern times.
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Loop, Jan. "Divine Poetry? Early Modern European Orientalists on the Beauty of the Koran." Church History and Religious Culture 89, no. 4 (2009): 455–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187124109x506213.
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AbstractThis article discusses Western attitudes to the style of the Koran from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The subject is of particular interest because the question of the Koran's aesthetic value is ultimately linked with the Islamic belief that the inimitable beauty of Muhammad's revelation is the very proof of its divine origin (i'jāz al-Qur'ān). Given the apologetic function of this doctrine in Islamic theology, many early modern European orientalists, from Theodor Bibliander to Ludovico Marracci, criticised the style. Some of the arguments presented were remarkably persistent and can be followed up to the present day. This article also shows, however, that since the end of the seventeenth century scholars such as Andreas Acoluthus, George Sale and Claude-Etienne Savary had developed a more favourable attitude to the Koranic style, while, at the end of the eighteenth century, the Prophet Muhammad was seen as an inspired genius and the Koran as an example of 'divine poetry'.
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Hartmann, Noga. "Globalized Islam." American Journal of Islam and Society 23, no. 2 (April 1, 2006): 100–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v23i2.1625.
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This book analyzes core issues of Islamic thought in the modern era byexamining Islam as both the dominant religion in the Middle East and aminority religion in the West. By considering a wide range of ideological, spiritual, and non-violent or violent events, Roy posits that contrary to popular(and erroneous) assumptions, Islamic fundamentalism derives fromglobalization, not from a clash of civilizations or religions.Roy claims that both liberalism and fundamentalism arise from globalizationand deterritorialization (i.e., the spread of Muslims and Islam beyondthe traditional Muslim world). He views neo-fundamentalists, Islamists,born-again Muslims, and radical violent groups as bit players in Islam’s continuingefforts to come to terms with western values. For example, Islamicmovements in Europe seem to be fundamentalist on the surface; but uponcloser examination, they display western values (e.g., individualization, selfrealization,spirituality, and the weakening of traditional ties and sources ofauthority). With one-third of all Muslims living outside Muslim-majoritylands, Roy believes that modern manifestations of Islam in the West (e.g.,radicalism, neo-fundamentalism, Sufism, nationalism, re-Islamization, neo-Islamic brotherhoods, and anti-westernism) evolve from globalizationinstead of a desire to return to orthodox religious practices or the allegedly“pure” Islam of an earlier time. He tells us that Islam is no longer only thetraditional faith of the Salaf (i.e., the three first and most pious generationsof Muslims), but also a mixture of modern sociological and cultural – evenwestern – elements, regardless of what modern-day Salafis claim ...
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Khan, Shoaib. "POWER GAMES ON THE SILK ROUTE: A JOURNEY FROM HISTORICAL TO MODERN ERA." Eurasian Research Journal 3, no. 2 (July 15, 2021): 33–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.53277/2519-2442-2021.2-03.
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The real aim of the programme is an extension of Chinese power and influence. As per an analyst, it is a game where China is steadily placing counters across Asia and Europe. In the Western views, it is easy to interpret comments as a strategy of China, with the aim of extending Chinese influence in a series of carefully planned steps. Around 114 BC by the Han dynasty, the trade routes of Central Asia were expanded largely through the missions and explorations of Chinese imperial envoy Zhang Qian. The world’s greatest economic construction and development project ever is being undertaken by China. In the economic map of the world the New Silk Road project is a revolutionary change. The geopolitical conflicts over the project could lead to a new cold war between East and West for dominance in Eurasia as it is becoming clearer every day.
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Kinoshita, Emi, Pavel A. Kosintsev, Alexei V. Abramov, Vyacheslav A. Solovyev, Alexander P. Saveljev, Yoshinori Nishita, and Ryuichi Masuda. "Holocene changes in the distributions of Asian and European badgers (Carnivora: Mustelidae: Meles) inferred from ancient DNA analysis." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129, no. 3 (February 10, 2020): 594–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa007.
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Abstract Although the present-day distributional boundary between the European badger (Meles meles) and the Asian badger (Meles leucurus) is around the Volga River, studies of ancient bone remains have indicated changes in the distribution of M. meles and M. leucurus in the Urals–Volga region during the Holocene. To examine past changes in distribution using genetic data, changes in genetic diversity, and the relationships of Holocene to modern populations, we sequenced ~150 bp of the mitochondrial DNA control region from the 44 ancient badger remains excavated from European Russian, Ural and Western Siberian sites, and we detected 12 haplotypes. Our study revealed Holocene changes in the distributional boundary between these badger species. Meles meles inhabited the Ural Mountains east of the Volga River in the Early Holocene, whereas M. leucurus expanded its distribution westwards, starting ~2500 years ago. Thereafter, M. leucurus rapidly replaced M. meles in the region between the Urals and the Volga, resulting in the present-day boundary in the Volga–Kama region. Among the 12 haplotypes detected, three for M. leucurus and four for M. meles were identical to partial sequences of haplotypes detected in modern populations, indicating considerable genetic continuity between Holocene and modern populations.
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Mooney, Damien. "Béarnais (Gascon)." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 44, no. 3 (November 25, 2014): 343–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002510031400005x.
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The region of Béarn denotes the historically Romance-speaking part of the modern-day Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in south-western France. The langue d’oc or southern Gallo-Romance variety historically spoken in Béarn, commonly referred to as ‘Béarnais’, is a dialect of Gascon. This variety may also be referred to by its autoglossonym ‘Biarnés’ though the French term is the most widely used designation for the regional language. The number of Gascon speakers in south-western France increases steadily from north (Bordeaux) to south (the Pyrenees) and because Béarn is the area of linguistic Gascony with the highest recorded number of Gascon speakers (Moreux 2004), Béarnais may be considered the principal surviving dialect of Gascon, though other surviving dialects, such as ‘Gascon de Chalosse’, and ‘Landais’, are still spoken and written.
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Luke, Christina, and Elvan Cobb. "Dwelling in Hacıveliler: social-engineering policies in the context of space, place and landscape in rural, western Turkey." Anatolian Studies 63 (July 11, 2013): 155–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066154613000082.
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AbstractThe Gediz valley of modern, western Turkey is a major gateway linking the Aegean spheres with the central Anatolian plateau. The making of cultural heritage in Anatolia plays out in very different ways depending on the physical location of the community and the level of implementation of the post-1923 social- and political-engineering agendas of the authorities of the Republic of Turkey. In this case-study we analyse one community, a village of just under 200 people known as Hacıveliler in the Marmara Lake basin of the Gediz valley in western Turkey (province of Manisa). We explore how this community continues to (re)define its heritage (from the 19th century to the present day) in light of contemporary policies. The approach combines historiographical, archaeological, preservation and ethnographical datasets.
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Efremov, Е. А. "Formation of ethnic and diasporic identity among Koreansin the USA." BULLETIN Series of Sociological and Political sciences 70, no. 2 (June 25, 2020): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-2.1728-8940.25.
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The issue of the formation of ethnic and diasporic identities was considered by both domestic and Western scholars. In particular, the issue of the formation of diasporas has always been considered through the prism of the notion of classical diasporas, however, modern globalization processes force the emergence of “new” diasporas, the qualities of which the predominant part of Korean Americans possess present day. Contrary to popular belief, the community of Korean Americans is not homogeneous, but bimodal - in terms of language, kinship, generation, identity and class, time of immigration.
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Dimova, Rozita. "“Modern” Masculinities: Ethnicity, Education, and Gender in Macedonia." Nationalities Papers 34, no. 3 (July 2006): 305–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905990600766586.
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In 2000, when conducting a household survey as part of my research on consumption and ethnicity in the small western Macedonian town of Kumanovo, I received explicit proof of how important education has become for ethnic Albanians. It was a Friday afternoon on a hot summer day. I was in my top-floor apartment, working with my research assistant, Adnan, a 28-year-old ethnic Albanian man who had been helping me for the past year. We had grown to be a well-synchronized team. It was his turn to dictate while I entered data from the survey into the computer. The questionnaire concerned interior decorations, but it began with several general questions about the ages, education, and number of family members. After we finished entering around thirty of the questionnaires completed in Albanian, Adnan suddenly stood up without a word. He went into the kitchen, and started drinking water from the first thing he saw, which was an empty olive jar drying on the dish rack. Then he came back, clearly upset. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with the upper part of his hand, and exclaimed,There is something not right here. I cannot believe that, in a family of eight, six members have college degrees and they all live together in one house. Bullshit! I would have known that family. I know most of the Albanians here and, trust me, this is not true. This is all exaggerations and lies.
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Bradley, Martha. "Cultural Configurations of Mormon Fundamentalist Polygamous Communities." Nova Religio 8, no. 1 (July 1, 2004): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.8.1.5.
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““The Principle”” or plural marriage, as practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) during the nineteenth century, evolved to encompass a culture of life practices, ideas and meanings for the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists who continue in the practice to the present day. For the modern-day polygamists, the culture that surrounds this doctrine includes a set of learned behaviors and strategies, symbols, and a compelling vision of an ideal community. This highly effective culture has helped plurality persist and grow in the intermountain western part of the United States, perpetuating a belief system but also a distinctive lifestyle wrapped around the doctrine of a plurality of wives. This article sketches out the parameters of the culture of polygamy, describes the key groups that continue in the practice, and discusses the connection between the fundamentalist polygamist groups and individuals and the LDS Church.