The transition of the basically local military-political crisis in Western Eurasia into real focus global geopolitical transformations and civilizational confrontation. That has brought to agenda issue degradation principles universalities that were basis for globalization both: socio-political socio-economic spheres thus demonstrating deepening interaction between them. world is facing perspec...

This original research on Restoration Shinto Norito seeks to explain the rhetorical devices used in the composition of a morning prayer ritual text. The nativist scholar, Hirata Atsutane, crafted this ritual to create a Japanese imperial subject with a particular understanding of native identity and national unity, appropriate to the context of a Japan in the shadow of impending modernity and f...

This article explores the proliferation of private housing and business objects along major roads that are modelled to resemble castles. I am interested in the changes these structures make in landscape, the new qualities they bring to the surroundings and the meanings they connote. From a first glance at their flamboyant, surreal and naïve forms it is evident that the structures represent nost...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent that ordinary people in Argentina understand and believe the ideas of development, progress and modernity and use these ideas in evaluating the world in general, and family behaviour in particular. We ask whether the concept of development and modernity is known and understood by ordinary people and the extent to which ordinary people use deve...

When PM Howard referred to Australia early in 2002 as a 'truly modern nation', he was alluding to a conflation of culture, technology, economic organisation and social ideology. Yet lying just below the surface were a series of policy and social initiatives that were giving concrete form to this presentation. Modernity has been presented as either a purely western structure of thought and pract...

10 / research in arabic language and literature: foreign languages faculty research biannual journal (autumn winter 2012-2013) issue 7 the manifestations of post-modernism in the novel barari alhoma by ibrahim nasr-allah ahmad reza saedi * aliyeh jafari zadeh ** abstract the word post-modernism expresses a new era in the history of western civilization, which is known by the feeling of disillus...