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Intro -- Understanding the Past, Navigating the Future -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- About This Book and Some Explanations -- Chapter 1 -- Quo Vadis, Humankind? -- The State the World Is In -- Is Globalisation the Future? -- What Do We Hope For? -- Globalisation: What Does It Actually Mean? -- Homogenisation or What? -- Tolerance and Globalisation in Conflict -- Human Rights and Shaky Compromises -- Difficulties Galore -- Culture War or Global Culture? -- A United World. Really? -- What Would Extra-Terrestrials Make of Humankind? -- Chapter 2 -- Where Do We Really Stand: Hubris and Nemesis? -- Power and Hegemony -- Cultural Arrogance and Dreams of Grandeur -- The Technological Side of Globalisation -- Population Growth and Globalisation -- Utopianism, the Unlikely Goal -- Nativism, Nationalism and Identity -- Universalised Ethics -- Chapter 3 -- Evolution and Its Failures -- Survival of the Fittest? Really? -- Random Firings of Evolutionism -- Brain and Its Teleology -- The Donkey's Carrot -- More About Cognition -- Artificial Intelligence and the Future Brain -- Hominin Competition -- Sapiens and Neanderthal Fraternising -- Did Neanderthal and Sapiens Kiss? -- Miscegenation in History -- Effects of Mixing with Neanderthals -- Superiority Not Through Muscular Strength -- Signs of Better Intelligence -- The Troglodyte Brain and Knowledge Growth -- But It May Not Be All One Way! -- Culture War over Old Bones -- Another Kind of Culture War -- Expunging History -- Chapter 4 -- Reason, Myth and Cognitive Revolution -- What Is Knowledge? -- Karl Popper and Epistemology -- Myth as Proto-Science -- Troglodytes and Scientists -- Conservatism and Progress at Odds -- Why Popper Is a Little Bit Wrong -- Our Present State of Mind -- Cognitive Evolution and Revolution -- Is There a Religious Evolution?.

Preliminary Material /E. Kolig -- Chapter One. Introduction /E. Kolig -- Chapter Two. Community, Identity, Diversity /E. Kolig -- Chapter Three. The Right To Be Different: Muslims In The Public Sphere /E. Kolig -- Chapter Four. Integration And Conflict Discourses /E. Kolig -- Chapter Five. Gender Issues: Women Are Equal But Different /E. Kolig -- Chapter Six. Globalisation, Political Islam And The Rise Of Fundamentalism /E. Kolig -- Chapter Seven. Epilogue: Muslims In The World /E. Kolig -- Index /E. Kolig.

Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also engages Benedict Anderson's idea of 'imagined communities' and shows how its operation impacts on both community and individual identity in an environment that is increasingly characterised by border crossings and transnationalism. Contemporary Asian realities, as examined in the essays, demonstrate the need to rethink previous notions of identity and nationalism.

Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also engages Benedict Anderson's idea of 'imagined communities' and shows how its operation impacts on both community and individual identity in an environment that is increasingly characterised by border crossings and transnationalism. Contemporary Asian realities, as examined in the essays, demonstrate the need to rethink previous notions of identity and nationalism. - Deze bundel gaat over de vorming van identiteit door het samenspel van etniciteit, nationalisme en de effecten van globalisering. De essays in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia maken de gelaagdheid en de complexiteit hiervan duidelijk.

Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also engages Benedict Anderson's idea of 'imagined communities' and shows how its operation impacts on both community and individual identity in an environment that is increasingly characterised by border crossings and transnationalism. Contemporary Asian realities, as examined in the essays, demonstrate the need to rethink previous notions of identity and nationalism