Multiple Secularities beyond the West: Religion and Modernity in the Global Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Jeremy F. Walton
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Religion And Modernity ◽  
Multiple Secularities

Agency, Culture, Modernity: Towards a New Understanding of Confucian Practical Reasoning

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 230-250
Author(s):  
Kai Marchal
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Practical Rationality ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Zhu Xi ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Age ◽  
To Come ◽  
Complex Forms

In this essay, I argue for a historical-critical perspective on rationality. In our global age, we in the West need to come to terms with the fact that non-Western traditions have developed complex forms of practical rationality. I will first give an overview of what I call the “Confucian standards of reasoning.” Secondly, I will explain how the Neo-Confucian thinker Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200) has rearticulated the earlier understanding of practical reasoning. Thirdly, I will demonstrate why a comparative perspective may enrich our reasoned engagement with individuals in the Chinese-speaking world. In developing forms of global reasoning, we should make sure that these are neither parochial nor difference-blind.

The Politics of Hair: Girls, Secularism and (Not) the Veil in Mustang and Other Recent French Films

Paragraph ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-369
Author(s):  
Fiona Handyside
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Material Body ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
Religion And Modernity ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
The Veil ◽  
French Films

This article explores art cinema's association of long, straight, shimmering hair with an idealized white, secular, agentic version of girlhood in Deniz Ergüven's Mustang (2015). With reference to girlhood studies and current debates in France about the politics of hair concealment and display, the essay argues for the central role played by the ‘politics of hair’ in thinking through the complex role of women and girls in a postsecular world. The girl's material body, and especially her hair, is made to support a binary approach toward questions of religion and modernity, rendering her the prime figure through which the relation between Islam and the West, tradition and modernity, patriarchy and feminism is articulated.

Comment on Steve Bruce

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Reddig
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The West ◽  
Religion And Modernity ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn his paper Bruce gives the impression that all proponents of the resacralisation thesis expect the comeback of religion in Western Europe. But this is not the case. The re-sacralisation thesis concentrates on religious developments beyond the West. Bruce rejects approaches that discuss the classical secularisation thesis with regard to worldwide developments. However, the examination of worldwide developments reveals that religion and modernity can be intertwined in multiple ways. All in all, Bruce’s argumentation could be extended to the discussion of factors that can explain the decline as well as the rise of religion in different regions of the world.Moreover, the way in which modern individuals believe and express their faith could be discussed.

Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Mudroch ◽  
J. R. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Research Work ◽  
List Type ◽  
The West ◽  
Asbestos Fibre ◽  
Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

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