The Historical Foundations of Yemen’s Globalisation

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-42
Author(s):  
Laurent Bonnefoy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
North And South

The chapter opens the first section of the book, focusing on the various challenges of Yemen through its relations with the outside world. The chapter shows how much its history has been shaped by the outside world, despite an image of backwardness. It presents the divided trajectories of north and south Yemen as well as some of the specificities of its populations, in particular in terms of tribal structures and religious identities, and how they came into play since the beginning of the twentieth century, letting Yemen appear as an issue in the international game.

A “Muslim” Poet in the Lap of a “Hindu” Mother

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Fell McDermott
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Complex Issue

An intriguing twist in the devotional culture of Kālī in modern India is its spread across religious boundaries, of which a notable example is the poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam, a twentieth-century poet who has left a dual legacy in West Bengal and Bangladesh. The absorbing attachment to Kālī of this Muslim poet who had a Tantric guru manifested itself in some of the finest lyrics that comprise the Śyāmā Saṅgīt genre. While they underscore Kālī’s command over an individual’s spirituality and poetry, they also problematize religious identities by assailing Muslim sensibilities, especially in Bangladesh, where this Hindu voice of its National Poet troubles the Bangladeshi sense of what Bangladeshi Islam is or should be. This chapter addresses the complex issue of why and how a Hindu goddess could have exercised so strong a pull on a Muslim poet possessing so powerful an imagination and so clear a voice.

ANN MOSELY LESCH, The Sudan: Contested National Identities (Bloomington: Indiana University Press; and Oxford: James Currey, 1998). Pp. 299. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-129
Author(s):  
SONDRA HALE
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Social Science ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Binary Model ◽  
North And South

With nearly a half-century of intermittent civil war in the background, it is becoming impossible to write a social-science monograph about Sudan without referring to contested national, ethnic, and religious identities. Few such works are gendered, however, and perhaps even fewer attempt a class analysis. Sudanese scholars contend more successfully with class; Euroamericans with gender. Despite good intentions, Sudan is usually explored through the binary model of “north” and “south.” Ann Lesch is no exception, but her ability to complicate matters is a welcome addition to the “integration–segregation” or “unionist–separatist” literature on Sudan.

Introduction

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Moral Sentiments ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Traditional Term

Prior to 1852, nobody used the word ‘altruism’ to refer to moral sentiments, actions, or ideologies. In that year the philosopher and critic G. H. Lewes approvingly introduced the term to a British readership in an article in the Westminster Review about the latest work by the atheistic French thinker who was credited with its coining—Auguste Comte. The creation and acceptance of this new word made it possible to experience oneself and the world in new ways, to communicate new ethical concepts, and to create new moral and religious identities. This book explains how and why the language of altruism was imported, adopted, resisted, and finally accepted between its first introduction as a strange and unwelcome neologism and its successful naturalization as a ‘traditional term’ in ethical discourse around the turn of the twentieth century.

The Antebellum Era and Civil War, 1800–1865

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-98
Author(s):  
Gillis J. Harp
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New England ◽  
State Level ◽  
The North ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Christian Nation ◽  
North And South

Several antebellum conservatives sought to dismantle the Lockean foundations of American political thinking in favor of a political vision that affirmed the divine origins of government. Evangelical conservatives such as Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen were among the first to advance the “America as a Christian nation” argument that became a favorite of conservatives in the latter part of the twentieth century. By the 1830s, New England evangelicals, such as Connecticut Congregationalist pastor Lyman Beecher, came reluctantly to accept church disestablishment at the state level as best for both Christianity and society. During the Civil War, conservatives North and South built upon the work of their antebellum forerunners and stressed the essential place and role of Christianity. Two examples of this movement in the North were the campaigns to amend the Federal Constitution with an explicit reference to Christ and the addition of “In God We Trust” to the nation’s coinage.

scholarly journals The concern of Andrey Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan bishop, about Ukrainian Emigrants in North and South America

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 258-270
Author(s):  
Adam Kubasik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Political Agitation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century a large group of Galician Ruthenians emigrated to North America and the United States and Canada, South America - mainly to Argentina and Brazil. Sheptytsky visited North America in 1910. He met with Ukrainian Greek Catholic immigrant communities in the United States and Canada. In 1921, he visited the USA and Canada again. In 1922 he arrived to Argentina and Brazil. He did not conduct open political agitation. However, some of his speeches have an anti-Polish character.

Contemporary South Asian Dance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketu H. Katrak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Classical Dance ◽  
British Colonization ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Indian Classical Dance ◽  
North And South ◽  
The U.S

Contemporary South Asian Dance is performed in the geographical territories of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and in the diaspora of South Asians in the global North and South. In the early twentieth century, migrations into Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, and the Caribbean originated from British colonization. Later, South Asians relocated to Canada, Britain, Europe, Australia, and the U.S. Contemporary South Asian choreography is inspired by indigenous traditions, Indian classical dance styles, and is at times hindered by political and religious restrictions repressing dance expression in public.

The “Delaware Horror”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis B. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
The Other ◽  
The North ◽  
North And South ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter provides a case study of a lynching at the other end of the northeastern seaboard: the mass mob execution by burning of George White, an African American, in Wilmington, Delaware, in June 1903. Delaware had been a slave state that did not join the Confederacy, and while it implemented a Jim Crow system similar to those in neighboring lower Mid-Atlantic states Maryland and Virginia, the state experienced less lynching. Delaware's evolving economy and social relations were strongly tied to the rapidly urbanizing regions of southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The chapter's analysis of the role of white and black Protestant ministers in the Wilmington mob execution and its aftermath offers significant insight into a well-publicized early-twentieth-century lynching that occurred somewhere between the North and South.

Truong Vinh Ky and Phan Thanh Gian: The Problem of a Nationalist Interpretation of 19th Century Vietnamese History

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton E. Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Vietnamese History ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
Respective Treatment ◽  
North And South

AbstractVietnamese historians in North and South Vietnam have, in writings since 1954, given considerable attention to the problem of reassessing and interpreting developments during the nineteenth century. For historians in Hanoi the test of Vietnamese nationalism has been whether or not an individual resisted the French. Saigon historians have not applied such a restrictive standard of judgement. The approach of the two schools of history is exemplified in dieir respective treatment of two notable nineteenth century figures; the linguist and journalist Truong Vinh Ky, and the mandarin Phan Thanh Gian. Both these men are condemned by Hanoi historians for their failure to work against the French. Saigon historians are more ready to consider sympathetically the factors which led to these men acting as they did. Resistance-oriented scholarship along the Hanoi model presents a grave risk of distortion. In the case of Truong Vinh Ky it tends to disguise the extent to which his views on Vietnam's future development were echoed in the twentieth century. For Phan Thanh Gian condemnation of his failure to fight to the death against the French diverts attention from the extent to which his decision represented an important reflection of a widespread attitude among many members of the mandarinate.

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