Civilization in crisis
Subtitle: 2009 International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations : 39th international conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, June 3-7, 2009
By: edited by Laina Farhat-Holzman, Thomas Rienzo
Contributors: Farhat-Holzman, Laina; Rienzo, Thomas
Publisher: International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780981933023
Subjects: Civilization; Congresses; Globalization; Civilisation; Congrès
Other titles: Proceedings of the 39th International Conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations; Proceedings of the 39th International Conference of the ISCSC
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Keynote lectures: Will business end or revive Western civilization? / Targowski; title: War, peace and civilizations / Melko; title: On giant's shoulders : the 1961 Salzburg meeting of the ISCSC / Palencia-Roth; title: Can religion mitigate the clash of civilizations? / Farhat-Holzman; title: Research papers: Capitalism, internationalism and socialism in times of globalization and reassertion of geography / Geiger; title: Cold war, hot climate : city planning in times of crisis / Dudley; title: Connecting laws of science and society / Rienzo; title: Conservatism and chaos : Martin Heidegger and the decline of the west / Rosner; title: Dialectical religionlogy : the future of religion / Siebert; title: From Sorokin to Huntington and beyond-civilizations in times of change, transition and crisis / Alalykin-Izvekov; title: Globalization-the rise, decline or mutation of Western civilization? / McCloud; title: Globalization and international development : critical challenges of the 21st century / Asefa; title: On megalopolitans and retards : the views of Spengler and Toynbee on the variability of the rate of cultural change and their continuing relevance / Smith; title: Membership in WTO and gross domestic product / Kafunya; title: Overseas Chinese business networks between two civilizations : Chinese industrial takeoff in British Hong Kong and Singapore during the Great Depression of the 1930s / Kuo; title: The proclaimed globalization-an ideology of soft-totalitarian social and psychological engineering / Zawadzki; title: The relationship between education and peace-building / Kadatska; title: "The revolutions of nature and naturalizing revolutions : seeking religious authority in the Yellow Turban Uprising and the fall of the Han dynasty" / Brouillette; title: Trends in religious belief and the role of religion in future world affairs / Newell; title: Why population pressure and militant religion are the most important causes of the developing global cirsis / Andregg.; title: Position papers: Computer networks as tools for enlarging human networks in our civilization / Michalec and Lilien; title: Dynamic systems and theoretical approach to civilization : rise, fall, competition, cooperation, and self-organization / Érdi; title: From "Tam tam" to wireless communication : advancing the African civilization into the global civilization / Oulai; title: Future teachers and formation of orthodox values in the educational process in Teachers' High School / Mikhaltsova; title: Healthkeeping component as a basis of socially-cultural development of youth / Pohorukov; title: Modern warfare up close and personal / Percic; title: Moving towards virtuality / Rea; title: Paradigms and paradigmatic shifts in the study of civilizations : Spengler, Toynbee, McNeill, Huntington, and Diamond / Von der Muhll; title: Pitirim A. Sorokin and Russian civilization / Zyuzev; title: Self realization of the students in pedagogical high school on the basis of orthodox culture and moral life / Milnis; title: Tax reform & civilization / Korth.; title: Research in progress: Between civilizations ; is Belarus a cleft or a torn country? / Daragensky; title: Economic growth and development of Korea under Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan administrations / Jung and Park; title: Eschatology : the mysterious internal dynamic to the rise and fall of civilizations / Stevens-Arroyo; title: Executive rewarding and compensation system : a comparison between Samsung and GE / Kim; title: Explaining British-Chinese divergence through comparative strategic scopes / Shively; title: Global financial crisis : is it failure of market or government? / Jung; title: How to sustain an economically viable civilization? / Samant; title: The influence of intercivilizational contact on intracivilizational discourse on identity : Samurai imagery as a response to changes in Meiji Japan / Benesch; title: From real to virtual civilization : a comparative approach in the 21st century / Han; title: Is the University still a source of progress in Western civilization? / Hawker; title: Landmarks in the comparative study of civilizations / Wilkinson; title: Origin of civilization / Maurer; title: The origin of civilization in ecological crisis / Stauffer; title: Pre-diction and prophesy : two modes of announcing civilizational distress : Comparing Frank Herbert's "Dune" to John of Patmos' "Book of Revelation" / Stevens-Diaz; title: The role of race and prejudice in the Russia-Chechnya conflict / Tepfenhart; title: The role of religious conversion in history / Farhat-Holzman; title: Resilience and resourcefulness in various ethnic groups-following psychotraumatic experience / Celinski, Ilacqua, and Allen; title: The slave trade, hydrocarbons, and globalization in the Niger Delta / Nwokeji; title: The spirit of Indian and Western civilizations : clash or cooperation / Malhotra; title: "The times, they are a changin' : American racial identities in the Age of Gloibalization" / Williams; title: Two critical transitions in the emerging 21st century global civilization and their impact upon world civilization / Kaufman; title: Why civilizations decline / McGaughey.; title: Awarded student papers: Barack Obama : a prospect for a new Enlightenment or just another superstar CEO? / McDonald -Swift; title: Carbon credits and the global trading market / Srivastava; title: Climate change and socities' [sic] choice / Chrisman; title: Convergence of six endogenous factors as the cause of the current credit crisis / Kreutzjans; title: The dream of middle-aged educational leader / Izumi; title: The new Enlightenment : the age of consilience in the sciences / Seim; title: The Orange Civil Society or the Orange Social Movement? Case study of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2004 / Pustelnyk; title: Viable solutions for sustainable urban water systems / Roush.; title: Conference reminiscences program and call for papers 2010: An underground view of the 39th ISCSC International Conference at Western Michigan University in June 2009 / McGaughey; title: Program 2009-39th World Conference of International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations; title: Index of contrubutors; title: Pictures from the 2009 ISCSC Conmference; title: Call for papers.