...This chapter discusses Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid, and observes the contrasting way they each dealt with the changing modern world. It first focuses on Muir, and discusses the importance of liminal positioning in his relationship with modernism, his metaphorical use of Greek myth and his...

..., even the perception of how “opposites” are defined is not absolute. Hence, acts of performance are simultaneously employed to further the understanding of what constitutes harmony in the modern world as well as restore it. Bali Hinduism Indonesia Islam Picard Michel tourism Ramayana Spies Walter...

...This chapter discusses the relationship between sectarianism and nationalism, underscoring its contention that sectarianism as an idea draws meaning only within a nationalist paradigm and hence belongs to the modern world. It points out that it focuses on one theme of a complex history...

...The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What the book terms “literature of leisure” is a modern literary response to the cultural past...

... was given greater emphasis. This triad culminated in a second constitution on the Church, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). Suggested Reading Bosschaert, Dries.   The Anthropological Turn, Christian Humanism, and Vatican II: Louvain...

...This chapter follows Virginia Woolf's assessment of soul in Russian fiction, applying it instead to African American and Latin American traditions as its guiding spirits. It operates with an assumption that there is something wildly quixotic about its endurance in the modern world and something...

...This chapter explores the alienation of many modern intellectuals. Perhaps the modern world is bereft of meaning, but the affluence provided by modern science means that for the vast majority of people, the world has probably never been so enchanted. The romantic nostalgia so characteristic...

...; they tended to view them with a certain degree of condescension. Fosdick, Lake, and Allen were certain that the doctrines to which the fundamentalists subscribed were outdated and in the process of being replaced by more sophisticated ideas that better accorded with the modern world. Machen J Gresham...

...This introductory chapter describes how Lu Xun's literary encounter with the modern world involved a sustained engagement with the past. His creative writings—fragmented and sometimes bizarrely incoherent in nature—reject the framework of a totalizing narrative and resist linear plotlines. Filled...

... Sundell Anders Jews Catholic Church in the modern world external balancing act internal balancing act normative power European state formation religion and politics On 18 July 1870, 433 old men, meeting in the Vatican Basilica and clenching their fists at a hostile world, passed the dogma of papal...

...This chapter outlines the motivation for the work. It is argued that, acknowledging the remarkable progress of science, it is essential to dissect the modern world view from the aspects of physics. The physicist may be the outsider here, but he may also bring new light on a confusing situation...

...’. Even though surveillance has also become more invisible because of the technically obscure systems by which it operates, people themselves are more and more visible at an increasing rate in the modern world due to various factors like social media. The chapter explains the spectrum of surveillance...

...2024 This chapter considers the significance of surveillance in the modern world and today’s digital times. It considers the smartphone as a universal symbol of connectivity and surveillance since millions of people handily carry one whenever and wherever. Even though people often think of new...

...The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, seeks to address the questions posed by contemporary society to Christians. Given the dramatic cultural changes that have taken place since the constitution’s publication, however, it remains an open...

...2022 ‘Violence past and present’ examines violence in history in the modern world since the mid-18th century, exploring how violence in the modern world differs from the pre-modern world, noting the significant of those differences. What is violence? How do its manifestations vary from different...

.... The modern world has seen the emergence of new and different kinds of violence. state violence ethnicity and violence India Australia human trafficking International Labour Organization ILO police prisons South East Asia internet and sexual violence women ecocide interpersonal violence modern...

... from a provincial backwater, he has embraced the modern world and seeks to establish his place in it. His life is reviewed as is the main themes of the book that is to follow: the need for order, harmony and balance amid a shifting world; a somewhat contradictory commitment to freedom; a genius...

..., and back again to India. Much has been written in recent years that highlights the connected histories of the early modern world, but there are few other historical figures who witnessed and experienced the formation of these connections in one lifetime and wrote something about it. The fact that Jawhar...

... in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social...

...How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, this book provides innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire...