Time and History : The Variety of Cultures

This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies. Contents Preface to the Series Introduction Part I TIME Chapter 1: Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness Chapter 2: Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures Chapter 3: Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko Chapter 4: Time Concepts in China Chapter 5: Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India Chapter 6: Interpretations of Time in Islam Chapter 7: Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity Part II HISTORY Chapter 8: History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism Chapter 9: Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue Chapter 10: Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India Chapter 11: Politics of Historical Sense Generation Chapter 12: Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity Chapter 13: The Search for Scholarly Identity—Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan Chapter 14: History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index of Names