Search: Social Sciences - Asian Studies, 2007

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9789004160217

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East Meets West

Edited by Kyong-Dong Kim and Hyun-Chin Lim

€158.00$205.00

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9789004158221

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Converting Cultures

Edited by Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart

This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism.

€110.00$142.00

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9789004156944

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Rationalizing Religion

Tong Chee Kiong

Disputing the secularization hypothesis, this book examines the relationship between religion and modernity, detailing and explaining religious conversion, revivalism, and religious competition in Singapore.There is intellectualization of religion, a shift from unthinking acceptance to ...

€94.00$122.00

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9789004154803

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Work Stress and Coping Among Professionals

Edited by Chan Kwok-bun

Based on a large-scale survey, indepth interviews and comparative analyses, this book offers deep analyses of work stress and coping among seven professional groups: doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, police officers, and life insurance agents. The book makes practical ...

€81.00$105.00

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9789004157064

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Sociology for Change

Edited by Bian Yan-jie, Chan Kwok-bun and Cheung Tak-sing. Guest Editor: Ku Hok-bun

Social Transformations in Chinese Societies is the offi cial annual of The Hong Kong Sociological Association. It publishes articles of original research that addresses theoretical, methodological, or substantive issues of sociological signifi cance about social transformations in Chinese ...