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Table of ContentsS.N. Eisenstadt, Foreword Adam Seligman, The Comparative Study of Utopias Adam Seligman, Christian Utopias and Christian Salvation: A General Introduction Adam Seligman, The Eucharist Sacrifice and the Changing Utopian Moment in Post Reformation Christianity Bernardo Arévalo de Léon, De-axialization/Re-axialization: The Case of Brazilian Millenialism Shlomo Fischer, Jewish Salvational Visions, Utopias, and Attitudes towards the Halacha Shlomo Fischer, Turning Classic Models into Utopias: The Neo Confucianist Critique Sarit Helman, Turning Classic Models into Utopias: The Neo Confucianist Critique Hariet Hartman, Can a Hindu Utopia be a Moslem Utopia? Examples from 12 century India and beyond Sarit Helman, The Javanese Conception of Order and its Relationship to Millenarian Motifs and Imagery S.N. Eisenstadt, Utopias and Dynamics of Civilizations: some concluding observations Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOn his death, Felix Jacoby left uncompleted the original plan for his massive and now standard compilation: Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Not only was he unable to complete his commentary to Volume III C, but no parts of three whole sections foreseen in the original plan were ever published. Jacoby did however leave behind a considerable Nachlass of more than 1200 pages of notes and outlines relating to his commentary to FGrHist Volume III C. Charles Fornara has undertaken the task of publishing in this fascicle Jacoby's text (sometimes with minor modifications), making additions of his own (between brackets). In writing this commentary Professor Fornara has tried to follow the stylistic conventions which Jacoby preferred and has done his best to emulate his general approach. The work deals with a part of the Graeco-Egyptian sources (Nos. 608a-608). Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker is available in print, and now also online as part of the online reference work Jacoby Online. Please click here for more details.

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Book SynopsisThe societies of the present world are experiencing many turbulent changes. New forces of change and modernization are driving people, business and cultures across borders. The world has become a home to a new generation of homo sapiens who are curious about others but, at the same time, cherish to preserve their own cultures. What is the nature of this evolving world society? Is the world driving toward a new global civilization—an "end of history"— or an inevitable civilizational clash? The present volume has brought together leading scholars in the field to examine the concept of globalization, deliberate on the character of its multifaceted nature and expressions, and delineate its impact on the emerging world economy, politics, culture, and science. A number of substantive issues such as the emergence of new global economic inequality, culture and the role of the trans-nationals, nature of the emerging global environmental regimes, rise of the NICs, and the conflicting role of the nation-states in the face of the advancing forces of globalization are addressed. It is contended that globalization should be perceived neither as an unbounded economic progress nor as an expansion of western domination. Globalization is, rather, defined as a new development strategy--a process of change that can be planned, guided, and controlled. For national political and business leaders of the world, the volume provides a blueprint of the emerging areas of policy concerns and guidance. For the world of social science, it presents a road-map of the emerging intellectual issues and challenges. Contributors are Alessandro Bonanno, Stephen W.K. Chiu, Douglas Constance, Richard J. Estes, R. Scott Frey, Archibald O. Haller, George A. Miller, Proshanta K. Nandi, Winifred R. Poster, J. Timmons Roberts, Shahid M. Shahidullah, Bam Dev Sharda, and Alvin Y. So.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Globalization and Development: The Emerging Dynamics and Dilemmas, Proshanta K. Nandi and Shahid M. Shahidullah Trends in World Social Development, 1970-1995: Development Challenges for a New Century, Richard J. Estes Globalization, Gender, and the Workplace: Women and Men in an American Multinational Corporation in India, Winifred R. Poster The Export of Hazardous Industries to the Peripheral Zones of the World-System, R. Scott Frey Concepts and Indicators of Development: An Empirical Analysis, Bam Dev Sharda, George A. Miller and Archibald O. Haller Global Agri-Food Sector and the Case of the Tuna Industry: Global regulation and Perspectives for Development Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas Constance Geopolitics, Global Production, and the Three Paths of Development in East Asia, Alvin Y. So and Stephen W.K. Chiu Emerging Global Environmental Standards: Prospects and Perils, J. Timmons Roberts The Nationality and Globality of Social Science: The Issues of Globalizing Sociology in America, Shahid M. Shahidullah Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the ethnic formation among the 1990s immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, in light of both domestic changes, and developments in the Israel- Arab conflict. Based on a broad variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book presents a detailed analysis of identity patterns among these immigrants, their orientation in matters of religion, society, culture and politics, and their relationships with all the constituent groups in Israeli society – including the Palestinian minority. The book provides a new critical perspective on questions of immigration, ethnicity and society in Israel. The analysis is placed in a global theoretical context that challenges the dominant approach in the sociology of immigration in Israel, which is based on the Zionist paradigm.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel Methodology Immigrants’ Survey Survey of the General Population Students’ Survey Focus Groups Chapter 1. Theoretical Framework Definitions of “Ethnic Group” Immigration and Ethnic Formation Ethnic Mobilization The Reactive Perspective The Competitive Model of Ethnic Mobilization Criticism of the Reactive and Competitive Approaches Rational Choice Theory The Role of the State Chapter 2. Israeli Society: A Background Immigration and the Construction of Social Boundaries Unique vs. Typical Immigration An Ideological Value or a Means to Achieve Political Goals Immigration and Ethnic Formation in Israel Background of Jewish Ethnicity Ethnic Composition over Time Ethnicity as a Socio-Cultural Rift The Modernization-Establishment Approach The Melting Pot Ideology Counter-approaches to Ethnic Relations Ethnic mobilization Ethnicity and the Religious-Nonreligious Divide The Jewish-Arab Divide Background Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel Social Change Economic Deterritorialization Political Territorialization Multiculturalism vs. Tribalism in Israeli Society Chapter 3. The Jews of Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Background and Waves of Immigration Emigration by Russian/Soviet/FSU Jews The First Waves to Palestine Immigrants from the Soviet Union in the 1970s Ethiopia: A New Reservoir of Immigrants Aspirations for Aliya from the West The 1990s Wave Main Trends Differences between the 1970s and the 1990s Waves Chapter 4. Identity Patterns and Ethnic Formation Communal Ethnic Organizations Sources of Information, Russian-Language Media Motivation for Migration and Connection with the Home Country Self-Identification Non-Jewish immigrants The Other – Definition: How Veteran Israelis Perceive the Immigrants Chapter 5. Attitudes toward Civil Society and Freedom of Expression Character of Israel Attitudes toward Peace Freedom of Expression Communication Environments Permissiveness The Ranking of Rights Chapter 6. Political Organization Voting Patterns in the Knesset Elections Collective vs. Individual Factors behind the Voting Patterns Factors behind the Voting for Prime Minister The Elections of 2003 Local Elections Chapter 7. Immigrants versus Israeli Society Adjustment Patterns Residential Adjustment Economic Adjustment Social Adjustment Mutual Influence Immigrants’ Social Distance from Other Groups in Israel Social Distance from Arabs Social Distance from other Jewish Groups Chapter 8. Attitudes of Veteran Groups toward Immigrants Attitudes in the Early 1990s Jewish Leadership Jewish Public The Arab Leadership Arab Public Trends over Time: A Decade later Internal Divisions within Jewish Populations Tolerance of Separate Immigrant Organizations Social Distance The Attitudes of the Younger Generation Social Distance as Felt by the Younger Generation Concluding Remarks References List of tables List of Figures

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Book SynopsisThe cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Contentious Futures: Past and Present, Brad Weiss 1. Domestic Object(ion)s: The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Politics of Marriage Payments, Love, and State Privatization, Beth Anne Buggenhagen 2. Neoliberalism, Homosexuality, Africa, the Anglican Church: The World Conference of Anglican Bishops at Lambeth, July 18–August 9, 1998, Neville Hoad 3. Muslim Saints in the Age of Neoliberalism, Benjamin F. Soares 4. “The Best Tradition Goes On”: Audience Consumption and the Transformation of Popular Theatre in Neoliberal Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley 5. Ritual Haunts: The Timing of Estrangement in a Post-Apartheid Countryside, Hylton White 6. “Real Men Reawaken their Fathers’ Homesteads, The Educated Leave them in Ruins”: The Politics of Domestic Reproduction in Post-Apartheid Rural South Africa, Zolani Ngwane 7. Street Dreams: Inhabiting Masculine Fantasy in Neoliberal Tanzania, Brad Weiss 8. Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu 9. Of Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education, and Their Enchantments in Neoliberal Kenya, James H. Smith 10. “Satan Is an Imitator”: Kenya’s Recent Cosmology of Corruption, Robert Blunt Notes on Afromodernity and the Neo World Order: An Afterword, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff Contributors Index

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