Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogenity. Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (International Comparative Social Studies 10)

Preface......Page 11
In homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (Menachem Magidor, Hayim Tadmor, Piotr Stzompka, Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Shalini Randeria)......Page 13
Introduction: Civilization, pluralism and uniformity (Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg)......Page 27
Part I. THE HISTORICAL TRAJECTORYOF MODERNITY......Page 55
1. Modernity in socio-historical perspective (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt)......Page 57
2. The Axial Conundrum: Between historical sociology and the philosophy of history (Johann P. Arnason)......Page 83
3. Cultural crystallization and civilization change: Axiality and modernity (Björn Wittrock)......Page 109
4. The exception that proves the rule? Rome in the Axial Age (W.G. Runciman)......Page 151
5. Civil Society: Some remarks on the career of a concept (Jürgen Kocka)......Page 167
6. Challenges of modernity in an age of globalization (T.K. Oommen)......Page 175
7. The dark side of modernity: Tension relief, splitting, and Grace (Jeffrey C. Alexander)......Page 197
Part II. MODERNITY AND PLURALISM......Page 207
8. Pluralities and pluralisms (Zvi Werblowsky)......Page 209
9. Multiculturalism revisited (Han Entzinger)......Page 217
10. Ethnic revival and religious revival in "Providential democracies" (Dominique Schnapper)......Page 231
11. Doubts about pluralism (Ralf Dahrendorf)......Page 249
12. The end of the "social" (Alain Touraine)......Page 255
13. Collective identity and the representation of liminality (Bernhard Giesen)......Page 271
Part III. RELIGION, NATIONALISM AND PLURALISM......Page 285
14. Weber's sociology of religion and Ancient Judaism (Wolfgang Schluchter)......Page 287
15. Comparative analysis of the civilization of modernity: 1203 and 2003 (Edward A. Tiryakian)......Page 313
16. Political culture in the Islamicate civilization (Saïd Arjomand)......Page 335
17. Multiple religious modernities: A new approach to contemporary religiosity (Danièle Hervieu-Léger)......Page 353
18. Religion and power in the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church (Michael Confino)......Page 365
19. From religion to nationalism: The transformation of the Jewish identity (Eliezer Ben-Rafael)......Page 391
Part IV. MODERNITY AS WORLD REALITY......Page 419
20. Who invented modernity in South India, and is it modern? (David Shulman)......Page 421
21. Is Israel Western? (Sammy Smooha)......Page 439
22. Cultural translations and European modernity (Gerard Delanty)......Page 469
23. Center-periphery, creolization and cosmopolitanism (Ulf Hannerz)......Page 487
24. Europe's multiple modernity (Erik Allardt)......Page 509
25. Civilizational resources for dialogic engagement? (Donald N. Levine)......Page 527
Part V. CHALLENGES OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES......Page 539
26. French and German Judaism facing modernity (Rolland Goetschell)......Page 541
27. From East Europeans to Europeans (Piotr Sztompka)......Page 553
28. Is Hindu-Muslim cleavage the paradigmatic case for conflicts in South Asia? (Stanley J. Tambiah)......Page 571
29. Democracy in Latin America: The 'only game in town'? (Luis Roniger)......Page 579
30. The European identity (Alberto Martinelli)......Page 607
Part VI. EPILOGUE: MODERNITY AS PROGRAM......Page 629
31. Basic mechanisms of moral evolution: in Durkheim's and Weber's footsteps (Raymond Boudon)......Page 631
32. Collective identity and the constructive and destructive forces of modernity (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt)......Page 661
APPENDIX......Page 681
The trail of a scholar......Page 683
A scholarly portrait (Donald N. Levine)......Page 688
Bibliography......Page 697
Index of Persons......Page 733
Index of Subjects......Page 739