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This book ('Good Muslims, Modern Citizens: Hui Islamic Revival in Northwest China') explores the hegemonic models of modernity and their alternatives in contemporary China through an anthropological investigation of Islamic revival among Hui, a Chinese-speaking ethnoreligious minority. Examining a variety of formal and informal, religious and semi-religious education activities aimed at children and youth in the poor areas of Northwest China, where Hui communities are most numerous, it traces the impact of nation-building and state modernization policies as well as the intensification of religious and economic contacts with Muslim majority countries on the (self)perceptions of Hui as an inalienable part of the Chinese nation on the one hand and members of the global ummah on the other. The detailed ethnographic study of religious life on a university campus reveals how young Hui negotiate their desires and forge their identities as simultaneously modern, educated Chinese citizens and pious Muslims. With its intimate portrayal of how global transformations are expressed and experienced in the everyday life of people on the margins of China and Muslim world, this book contributes to the growing literature on contemporary Chinese and Muslim religiosities. Skozi antropološko raziskavo islamskega preporoda med Huiji, kitajsko govorečo etnoreligiozno manjšino, knjiga obravnava hegemonične in alternativne modele modernosti v današnji Kitajski. Osredotočujoč se na formalne in neformalne oblike izobraževanja mladih v revnih predelih kitajskega severozahoda, ki v različni meri združujejo verske in ne-verske vsebine, delo preučuje vpliv kitajskih projektov izgradnje moderne nacionalne države ter krepitve verskih in gospodarskih stikov z državami z večinskim muslimanskim prebivalstvom na (samo)percepcije Huijev kot neločljivega dela kitajske nacije po eni in članov globalne umme po drugi strani. Etnografska študija verskega življenja v univerzitetnem kampusu razkriva, kako mladi Huiji prevprašujejo in kujejo svoje identitete kot moderni, izobraženi kitajski državljani ter hkrati pobožni, krepostni muslimani. Z intimnim prikazom načinov, kako se globalne transformacije odražajo v izkušnjah ljudi na obrobjih Kitajske in islamskega sveta, knjiga prispeva k naraščujoči literaturi o sodobni kitajski in muslimanski religioznosti.

China --- Hui people --- Islam --- minorities --- modernization --- sociology of religion --- Huiji --- islam --- Kitajska --- manjšine --- modernizacija --- sociologija religije

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On January 4th, 2011, the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 became law. The acronym refers to the Government Performance and Results Act. When GPRA 1993 was enacted, it was regarded as a watershed for the federal government. For the first time, Congress established requirements in statute for most agencies to set goals, measure performance, and report the information to Congress for potential use. Agencies submitted this information in three major products: multi-year strategic plans, annual plans, and annual reports. This book provides an overview and background on GPRA 1993 and its modernization changes in 2010.

Government productivity --- United States. --- GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (United States) --- United States.

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The eastern edge of Europe has always been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr V. Kravchenko asks what the words "Ukraine" and "Russia" really mean. The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland abandons linear historical interpretation and addresses questions of identity and meaning through imperial and geographic contexts. Dominated by imperial powers, Eastern Europe and its boundaries were in a constant state of flux and re-identification during the Russian imperial period. Here, the Little Russian early modern identity discourse both connects and separates modern Russian and Ukrainian identities and gives rise to issues of historical terminology. Mirroring the historical ambiguity is the geographical fluidity of the borders between Ukraine and Russia; Kravchenko situates this issue in the city of Kharkiv and Kharkiv University as both real and imagined markers of the borderland. Putting the centuries-long Ukrainian-Russian relationship into imperial and regional contexts, Kravchenko adds a new perspective to the ongoing discourse about relations between the two nations.

Nation-building --- Ukraine --- Ukraine --- Religion. --- Relations --- Kharkiv. --- Little Russia. --- Novorossiia. --- Russia. --- Ukraine. --- borderland. --- cityscape. --- discourse. --- history. --- identity. --- modernization. --- university.

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The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European periphery. At its core is the presentation of three case studies (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece), intertwined at times through similar, but also divergent paths. Each case aspires to tell a different and yet complementary story with respect to the issue of modernity and socialism. The book analyses the introduction of socialism against the background and in conjunction to other prominent options of political modernity such as nationalism, liberalism and agrarianism.

Socialism --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Ideology, Intellectual life, Liberalism, Modernization, Nationalism, Political studies, Socialism.

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Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future-and their relationship to the present-been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse. In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls "time regime of modernity" that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience, historical theory, and our life-world of shared experience, explaining what we have both gained and lost during this profound transformation.

Time. --- Time in literature. --- History --- History, Modern --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- cultural crisis. --- ecological collapse. --- modernization. --- temporal orientation.