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The Search for Fundamentals

The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Lieteke Vucht Tijssen

    1. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. Jan Berting

    1. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Frank Lechner

    1. Emory University, Atlanta, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8
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  2. Modernisation and the Search for Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-13
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    2. Theories of Modernisation and the Search for Fundamentals

      • Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen
      Pages 15-22

  4. Secular Values and the Search for Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-115
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    2. Fundamentals and Civil Religiosity

      • Meerten ter Borg
      Pages 117-130

    3. Equality and Diversity Radical Feminism and the Quest for Fundamentals

      • Rosi Braidotti
      Pages 131-141

    4. The New Age: Values and Modern Times

      • Paul Heelas
      Pages 143-170

  5. Modernisation, Colonialism and the Search for Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-174
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    2. The Caribbean Counter-plantation Rural Formation Heritage and the Contemporary Search for Fundamentals

      • Angel Quintero-Rivera
      Pages 175-185

    3. Preventing or Criticising the Process of Modernisation? The Case of Brasil

      • Otávio Velho
      Pages 187-195

  6. Modernity and the Search for Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-200
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    2. Modernisation, Human Rights and the Search for Fundamentals

      • Jan Berting
      Pages 199-216

    3. Postmodernism and the Quest for Meaning

      • Mike Featherstone
      Pages 217-235

  7. Modernisation Theories Revisited

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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About this book

Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious traditions, many also aspire to new secular certainties. In their various new forms and contexts the contemporary quests for meaning in turn transform the societies in which they occur. The rich comparative examples in The Search for Fundamentals are used to analyze the sources and consequences of several cultural movements. The book also offers theoretical reflections on the difficulties they experience and on the message they carry for students of modernity.
Audience: A broad readership of scholars and advanced students in the social sciences and humanities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Lieteke Vucht Tijssen

  • Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan Berting

  • Emory University, Atlanta, USA

    Frank Lechner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Search for Fundamentals

  • Book Subtitle: The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning

  • Editors: Lieteke Vucht Tijssen, Jan Berting, Frank Lechner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8500-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3542-9Published: 31 July 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4568-3Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8500-2Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: II, 294

  • Topics: Religious Studies, general, Anthropology, Sociology, general, Political Science, Social Sciences, general

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