The Easternization of the West: A Thematic Account of Cultural Change in the Modern Era
Campbell's core thesis in this book is that the West, meaning mainly Western Europe and North America, has since the 1960s experienced a fundamental cultural shift in its dominant worldview toward an “Eastern” one, with a corresponding decline in the previously dominant “Western” worldview. The...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 331-332 |
| Review of: | The easternization of the West (Boulder, Colo. [u.a.] : Paradigm Publ., 2007) (Beyer, Peter)
The easternization of the West (Boulder, Colo. [u.a.] : Paradigm Publ., 2007) (Beyer, Peter) |
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| Summary: | Campbell's core thesis in this book is that the West, meaning mainly Western Europe and North America, has since the 1960s experienced a fundamental cultural shift in its dominant worldview toward an “Eastern” one, with a corresponding decline in the previously dominant “Western” worldview. The difference between Western and Eastern is only indirectly geographic, referring principally to Max Weber's ideal-typical distinction between two corresponding worldviews, the Western one characterized by a radically transcendent personal deity who creates and controls the natural world and humans, the Eastern by an immanent and impersonal principle of which the natural world and humans are an intimate aspect. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp042 |