Civilizational futures
Subtitle: proceedings of the 40th international conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC)
By: editors, Connie Lamb, Andrew Targowski
Contributors: Lamb, Connie; Targowski, Andrzej
Publisher: International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780981933061
Subjects: Globalization; Civilization; Congresses
Other titles: Proceedings of the 40th international conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC); Proceedings of the 2010 conference International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Civilization manifesto towards the wise civilization and new ideology / Andrew Targowski; title: Sustainable mountain development as part of globalization: case study of the cooperation between Rocky Mountains and Central Asian Mountain nations / Baktybek Abdrisaev, Rusty Butler; title: Civilizational science: the evolution of a new field / Vladimir Alalykin-Izvekov; title: The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857: a civilizational encounter with lessons for us all / Michael Andregg; title: Social and political role of religions: the particular case of Judaism and of Brazilian Candomblé / Pedro P. Geiger; title: Herodotus and today's "Clash of Civilizations" / Jaime Gonzalez-Ocana; title: Reading the past for the future: when ideologies precipitate crises they were intended to avert / Taylor Halverson; title: Private cram schools overpower regular school education in Korea / Soojin Jung; title: Emerging East Asia challenges the West: will Asia surpass the U.S. and West soon? / Dong Hyeon Jung; title: Altruism's role in educating girls and women in the third world / Connie Lamb; title: Autonomy in action and inaction: reconfiguring autonomy in Gandhi's autobiography / Rachel Jeppsen Lewis; title: Project of International Cooperation between Russia and USA as a Vehicle of Altruism Development in  Global Education / Liubov Mikhaltsova; title: Religion and the Enlightenment in Baroque Latin America: a chapter in the transformation of civilization in popular culture / Adán Stevens-Díaz; title: Education for Global civilization / Richard Zinser; title: The possibilities and limitations of religious-based altruism for solving endemic social problems: findings from a multi-year research project / Matthew T. Lee and Thomas L. Kychun; title: Crown, citizenship, and clerical courage in medieval Abyssinia/Ethiopia / Tseggai Isaac; title: Modernity and Islam in Malaysia / Norman C. Rothman; title: Thoughts on Nicholas Hagger's The Rise and Fall of Civilizations / W. Reed Smith.