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The Limits of Westernization

American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960

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The Limits of Westernization

American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960

By: Jon Davidann

The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the pre-war origins and development of modern ideas. This book re-evaluates the influence of the United States on East Asia in the twentieth century and gives greater voice to East Asians in the construction of their own ideas of modernity.

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

By: Jon Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

By: Jon Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert

One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that opens up history to different perspectives and experiences, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History examines cultural contact between people from across the globe between 1453 and the present. The book examines the historical record of these contacts, distilling from those processes patterns of interaction, different peoples’ perspectives, and the ways these encounters tended to subvert the commonly accepted assumptions about differences between peoples in terms of race, ethnicity, nationhood, or empire. This new edition has been updated to employ current scholarship and address recent developments, as well as increasing the treatment of indigenous agency, including the major role played by Polynesians in the spread of Christianity in Oceania. The final chapter has been updated to reflect the refugee crisis and the evolving political situation in Europe concerning its immigrant population. Supported by engaging discussion questions and enlivened with the voices and views of those who were and remain directly engaged in the process of cross-cultural exchange, this highly accessible volume remains a valuable resource for all students of world history.

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

By: Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

By: Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations. It studies the spaces between cultures historically to help us transcend human differences today in a rapidly globalizing world. The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments and particularly significant encounters that have changed the direction of world history. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history.

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1315507951

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A World of Crisis and Progress

The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930

By: Jon Thares Davidann

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A World of Crisis and Progress

The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930

By: Jon Thares Davidann

American YMCA missionaries reacted with their own sense of nationalism, recognizing that failure to enact the American Protestant vision of Christianity in Japan would represent a setback for their role as God's "chosen people.".

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Lehigh University Press

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0934223432

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Empire of Sacrifice

The Religious Origins of American Violence

By: Jon Pahl

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Empire of Sacrifice

The Religious Origins of American Violence

By: Jon Pahl

It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since 9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally. In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.

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NYU Press

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0814768954

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Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941

By: J. Davidann

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Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941

By: J. Davidann

This study explores U.S-Japanese relations in the interwar period to find that the seeds of the Pacific War were sown in the failure of cultural diplomacy and the growth of mutually antagonistic images. While most Americans came to see Japan's modernity as a façade, the Japanese began to group Americans with the warlike European powers.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403975329

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Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War

By: Jon Thares Davidann

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Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War

By: Jon Thares Davidann

Hawai‘i at the Crossroads tells the story of Hawai‘i’s role in the emergence of Japanese cultural and political internationalism during the interwar period. Following World War I, Japan became an important global power and Hawai‘i Japanese represented its largest and most significant emigrant group. During the 1920s and 1930s, Hawai‘i’s Japanese American population provided Japan with a welcome opportunity to expand its international and intercultural contacts. This volume, based on papers presented at the 2001 Crossroads Conference by scholars from the U.S., Japan, and Australia, explores U.S.–Japanese conflict and cooperation in Hawai‘i—truly the crossroads of relations between the two countries prior to the Pacific War. From the 1880s to 1924, 180,000 Japanese emigrants arrived in the U.S. A little less than half of those original arrivals settled in Hawai‘i; by 1900 they constituted the largest ethnic group in the Islands, making them of special interest to Tokyo. Even after its withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, Japan viewed Hawai‘i as a largely sympathetic and supportive ally. Through its influential international conferences, Hawai‘i’s Institute of Pacific Relations conducted a program that was arguably the only informal diplomatic channel of consequence left to Japan following its withdrawal from the League. The Islands represented Japan’s best opportunity to explain itself to the U.S.; here American and Japanese diplomats, official and unofficial, could work to resolve the growing tension between their two countries. College exchange programs and substantial trade and business opportunities continued between Japan and Hawai‘i right up until December 1941. While hopes on both sides of the Pacific were shattered by the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japan-Hawai‘i connection underlying not a few of them remains important, informative, and above all compelling. Its further exploration provided the rationale for the Crossroads Conference and the essays compiled here. Contributors: Tomoko Akami, Jon Davidann, Masako Gavin, Paul Hooper, Michiko Itò, Nobuo Katagiri, Hiromi Monobe, Moriya Tomoe, Shimada Noriko, Mariko Takagi-Kitayama, Eileen H. Tamura.

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University of Hawaii Press

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The Limits of Westernization

American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960

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American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

By: Jon Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

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A World of Crisis and Progress

The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930

By: Jon Thares Davidann

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The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

By: Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

By: Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert

One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that opens up history to different perspectives and experiences, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History examines cultural contact between people from across the globe between 1453 and the present. The book examines the historical record of these contacts, distilling from those processes patterns of interaction, different peoples' perspectives, and the ways these encounters tended to subvert the commonly accepted assumptions about differences between peoples in terms of race, ethnicity, nationhood, or empire. This new edition has been updated to employ current scholarship and address recent developments, as well as increasing the treatment of indigenous agency, including the major role played by Polynesians in the spread of Christianity in Oceania. The final chapter has been updated to reflect the refugee crisis and the evolving political situation in Europe concerning its immigrant population. Supported by engaging discussion questions and enlivened with the voices and views of those who were and remain directly engaged in the process of cross-cultural exchange, this highly accessible volume remains a valuable resource for all students of world history.

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Rumors of God Bible Study Participant's Guide

By: Darren Whitehead,Jon Tyson

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Rumors of God Bible Study Participant's Guide

By: Darren Whitehead,Jon Tyson

What if the rumors are true? Rumors of God DVD-Based Study is a call to Christians seeking a vision of the life God is calling them to, one that transcends the shallowness of our culture. This DVD-based small group study will challenge group members to reject what is plausible and to cry out for God to bring what is possible in their lives and in the church. Authors Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson share compelling stories about the work and activity of God today. Packed with fresh cultural observations and illuminating Scriptural insights, Rumors of God DVD-Based Study will ignite a passion in your heart to see your faith come to life. Participant Guide includes: Six sessions of small group interactive study Thought-provoking daily readings for each session Deep study of Scripture to help you discover God’s truth and work around you “One thing is for certain, these guys love the Church, and the Christ who fashions it together through lives reborn by the unique and ageless grace He exudes.” –Louie Giglio, Pastor, Passion City Church “With wisdom beyond their years, these next generation leaders shift our collective gazes from the Church’s blemishes to her beauty, from her prominent failures to her promising future. Both challenging and encouraging, Rumors of God will reintroduce you to a God worth talking about.” -Gabe Lyons, Author, The Next Christians, Founder, Q, Co-Author, UnChristian For use with the Rumors of God DVD-Based Study. 978-1-4016-7530-1

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HarperChristian Resources

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1401675336

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Things Not Seen

A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Trusting God's Promises

By: Jon Bloom

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Things Not Seen

A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Trusting God's Promises

By: Jon Bloom

True faith is hard. More than mere sentimentalism, faith often calls for a deep and resilient trust in God—especially when the going gets tough and the road is dark. In Things Not Seen, author Jon Bloom encourages readers with 35 imaginative retellings of stories from the Bible that illustrate the importance of living by faith. A follow-up to the author's previous book, Not by Sight: A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Walking by Faith, this inspiring volume explores the lives of Abraham, Moses, Saul, John the Baptist, and more—helping readers remember God's promises, rely on his grace, and follow his leading regardless of the circumstances. The book includes a foreword by popular author and blogger Ann Voskamp.

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The Limits of Westernization

The Limits of Westernization

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

A World of Crisis and Progress

A World of Crisis and Progress

Empire of Sacrifice

Empire of Sacrifice

Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941

Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941

Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War

Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War

The Limits of Westernization

The Limits of Westernization

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

A World of Crisis and Progress

A World of Crisis and Progress

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present

Rumors of God Bible Study Participant's Guide

Rumors of God Bible Study Participant's Guide

Things Not Seen

Things Not Seen

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