Time and history : the variety of cultures /: the variety of cultures. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jörn Rüsen.
• Editors: Rüsen, Jörn
• Contents: Preface to the Series; Jörn Rüsen Introduction ; Jörn Rüsen PART I: TIME Chapter 1. Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness; Jörn Rüsen Chapter 2. Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures; Klaus E. Müller Chapter 3. Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko; Fritz W. Kramer Chapter 4. Time Concepts in China; Achim Mittag Chapter 5. Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India; Georg Berkemer Chapter 6. Interpretations of Time in Islam; Otfried Weintritt Chapter 7. Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity; Harro Müller PART II: HISTORY Chapter 8. History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism; Aziz Al-Azmeh Chapter 9. Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue; Abdullahi A. An-Na'im Chapter 10. Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India; B. D. Chattopadhyaya Chapter 11. Politics of Historical Sense Generation; D. L. Sheth Chapter 12. Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity; Michael Gottlob Chapter 13. The Search for Scholarly Identity-Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan; Masayuki Sato Chapter 14. History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan; Shingo Shimada Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages)
• Subjects: 115; Time; History; Civilization, Oriental; PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Civilization; Civilization, Oriental; Time; History; India -- Civilization; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857450418; 0857450417
• Related ISBNs: 9781845453497; 1845453492
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-240) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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