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Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization.

Following Eisenstadt's and...

Das brisante Thema "Sterbehilfe" wirft wie derzeit kein anderes schwierige und komplexe Fragestellungen auf. In der kontrovers in Offentlichkeit und Fachwelt gefuhrten Diskussion stehen sich die Argumente diametral gegenuber. Das vorliegende Buch beleuchtet die einzelnen Facetten der Thematik. Wahrend in Deutschland die "aktive Sterbehilfe" nach wie vor strafbar sein soll, werden in der Politik Uberlegungen angestellt, die "passive Sterbehilfe" straffrei zu machen. Auch die Anderung des Betreuungsrechts steht in diesem Zusammenhang zur Diskussion. Vorsorgevollmacht und Patientenverfugung...

Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates.

Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber's conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters, Islamic specialists consider such major topics as...

Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization.

Following Eisenstadt's and...