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The Search for fundamentals : the process of modernisation and the quest for meaning

Title
The Search for fundamentals : the process of modernisation and the quest for meaning / edited by Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen, Jan Berting and Frank Lechner.
Publication
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Vucht Tijssen, Lieteke van.
  • Berting, J.
  • Lechner, Frank.
  • Netherlands. Nationale UNESCO-Commissie.
Description
293 pages; 25 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Based on papers presented at an international conference held in Zeist, The Netherlands, 19-21 November 1991.
  • "Netherlands Unesco Commission"--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Foreword / Gottfried Leibbrandt -- Introduction / Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen -- Theories of Modernisation and the Search for Fundamentals / Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen -- Introduction / Frank Lechner -- The Search for Fundamentals and Islamic Fundamentalism / Said Amir Arjomand -- Modernisation and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Muslim Brotherhood and its Ramifications / Uri Kupferschmidt -- Survival Strategies of Conservative Protestants in Dutch Society / Hijme Stoffels -- World Views in Support of Traditional Christian Religion / Rob Eisinga -- Fundamentalism: Origins and Influence / Frank Lechner -- Introduction / Jan Berting -- Fundamentals and Civil Religiosity / Meerten ter Borg -- Equality and Diversity. Radical Feminism and the Quest for Fundamentals / Rosi Braidotti -- The New Age: Values and Modern Times / Paul Heelas -- Introduction / Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen --
  • The Caribbean Counter-Plantation. Rural Formation Heritage and the Contemporary Search for Fundamentals / Angel Quintero-Rivera -- Preventing or Criticising the Process of Modernisation? The Case of Brasil / Otavio Velho -- Introduction / Jan Berting -- Modernisation, Human Right, and the Search for Fundamentals / Jan Berting -- Postmodernism and the Quest for Meaning / Mike Featherstone -- The Search for Fundamentals in Global Perspective / Roland Robertson -- Modernisation Theories Revisited. Conclusions / Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen.
ISBN
0792335422
LCCN
gb 95083146
OCLC
  • 33984075
  • ocm33984075
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries