The Dynamics of Transculturality Concepts and Institutions in Motion /

The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese p...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Flüchter, Antje (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Schöttli, Jivanta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Σειρά:Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Conceptual considerations
  • Marxism, Modernity, and Revolution: The Asian Experience
  • From Religious Contact to Scientific Comparison and back. Some Methodological Considerations on Comparative Perspectives in the Science of Religion
  • Part II. Politics and flow
  • Hippodamos and Phoenicia: On city Planning and Social Order in a Transcultural Context
  • A Forgotten Landscape of the Form of Government
  • Military Intelligence and Early Modern Warfare. The Dutch East India Company and China 1622–1624
  • ‘Cultural Citizenship’ and Media Representation in India: Towards a Trans-Policy Approach
  • The Era of Crowds: Gustave Le Bon, Crowd Psychology, and Conceptualising of Mass-Elite Relations in China
  • Part III. Religion and flow
  • The Goddess’s New Clothes. Conceptualising an ‘Eastern’ Goddess for a ‘Western’ Audience
  • Across Central Asia: Cultural Crossroads, Religious Interactions? The Monastery, H.2153 fol. 131v, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul
  • Importing and Exporting Gods? On the Flow of Deities between Egypt and its Neighboring Countries.