The new SAGE Handbook of Sociology aims to address these new developments, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates of today. To undertake this ambitious project three leading figures in the field of sociology were selected as editors to bring together the …
The relationships between globalization and the development of nationalism are central to the current debates about globalization. This study reveals how the global economy has been strategically incorporated into the nation-building process by China in terms of its attitude to Taiwan. Under its “One China Policy,” China claims sovereignty over Taiwan and denies Taiwan’s status …
WPS 46 “Doing Chineseness”: Taiwanese Capital in China Read More »
Garin Nugroho’s short film on the 2004 Indonesian legislative elections, The Fear Factor, follows dangdut performers in Yogyakarta during the campaign, as they perform for one political party rally after another, changing their costumes to match the colours of the party concerned. A rally performance was, for these artists, just another gig – and political …
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Since the fall of the Suharto regime, forces pressing for regional autonomy have strengthened in Indonesia, with some people arguing that the country is in danger of disintegrating. This book examines a range of issues connected with decentralization and regional autonomy in Indonesia, especially focusing on various local contexts. The multiple issues that are dealt …
Renoncement et puissance. A voir ces deux termes ainsi reliés l’un à l’autre, on croirait d’abord à une opposition. Et pourtant, en terre de bouddhisme, le moine parti dans la forêt, celui-là même qui incarne le renoncement au monde le plus radical, est aussi tenu pour un ” superhomme “. Ses contemporains lui attribuent des …
Renoncement et puissance: La quête de la sainteté dans la Birmanie contemporaine Read More »
The religious conversion history of the Uighur from ancient times to the 16th century is reflected in the colourful religious scenes along the Silk Road. During the course of history, the Uighur were successively adherents to Shamanism, Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism prior to their mass conversion to Islam in the 16th century. The successive …
WPS 44 History of Uighur Religious Conversions (5th – 16th Centuries) Read More »
Since the 1980s, a widespread view has arisen in the literature that the post-1950 economic successes of Taiwan and the Republic of Korea have been due, in part at least, to the legacy of Japanese colonialism. This paper challenges that view by comparing Japanese economic achievements in both Taiwan and Korea with those of the …
A demographic perspective is relevant to understanding the position of Muslims in today’s world. This paper deals with issues such as the proportion of Muslims who live in countries where Muslims are the great majority of the population (71% live in countries where more than 80% of the population is Muslim); indices of human development, …
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Much has been written about the attitude of Islam to family planning and population control. In the past much of this writing took as its starting-point the observation that Muslim countries, and Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries, tended to have high fertility. It was only a small step from this to the argument that high …
