Sublime

Folk religion, the Catholic Church (especially in the Philippines), Buddhism, Daoism, familism, lineages, fengshui, indigenous traditions, symbols and rituals (the Catholic Mass, parades, funerals, martial arts performances that can turn into real resistance) have played a significant role in framing, empowering and enhancing the solidarity of loca

I want to see how the environmental program and movement in China may be able to incorporate such a long-term salvationist agenda of sustainability by touching upon the discourses and practices that are shaping it.

believe that these changes require us to revisit the paradigm of historical sociology deriving from the nineteenth century which essentially seeks to explain the rise of the West.

A survey of Indian students in the United States, published in 1970, found that about half had planned at the beginning of their studies to return home. By the end (5.8 years later, on average), three out of four were planning to "drain."

Like most upper-crust Hong Kongers, Eddie also possessed what was perhaps the ultimate membership card—Canadian Permanent Resident Cards for his entire family (a safe haven in case the powers that be in Beijing ever pulled a Tiananmen again).

What were the methods of dialogical transcendence whereby segments and groups in popular religion accommodated diversity? What were the techniques of self-formation linking the self/body to the local and to universal ideals in late imperial China?

Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953); Shmuel Eisenstadt, Ed., The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations

live hula performances in the continental United States began a process of marking Hawai‘i as an eroticized and feminized space, a space disposed to political, military, and tourist penetration.