We live in a world shaped by secularism - the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization, but when religion is admitted into modernity, it has been distinguished from superstition. That such ideas are continually c...(展开全部)

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学与布朗大学，现为美国杜克大学 Firor Scott 文学教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学，现为美国布朗大学Andrew Mellon人文学讲座教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学与布朗大学，现为美国杜克大学 Firor Scott 文学教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

This book takes its leave with the realization that Western-driven culture is quickly reaching the limits of global capitalism, and that this reality manifests itself not only economically and politically, but that it is at once a cultural, aesthetic, political, religious, ecological, and philosophical problem. While Western capitalism is based upon the assumption of indefinit...(展开全部)

Michael Oakeshott’s interest in religion and theology was especially prominent in his essays of the 1920s and 1930s. This book consists of four important unpublished pieces, together with six essays by Oakeshott that originally appeared in remote and inaccessible journals. Much of the collection was written early in his career and reveals not only Oakeshott’s initial intellectu...(展开全部)

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

Theorists of "secularization" for two centuries have been saying that religion must inevitably decline in the modern world. But much of the world today is as religious as ever. This volume challenges the belief that the modern world is increasingly secular, showing instead that modernization more often strengthens religion. Seven expert social observers examine several regions ...(展开全部)