The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

Around the world, an international movement of transition towns is transforming communities from the grassroots up by nurturing a caring culture, reimagining ways to meet local needs, and crowdsourcing solutions.

Ritual provides us with a tool for learning to think logically, analogically and ecologically as we move toward a sustainable culture. 

Through literature and art, and the state’s provision of official ‘cults’ and sacrifices as a focus for local popular religion, the influence of Confucian culture was diffused more widely and deeply than ever before.99 China’s political and economic integration was thus matched by a growing cultural unity achieved in the last era before the more in

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