Developing cultures : essays on cultural change

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Developing cultures : essays on cultural change

edited by Lawrence Harrison and Jerome Kagan

Routledge, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents of Works

  • Introduction / Lawrence Harrison
  • Child rearing
  • Culture, values, and the family / Jerome Kagan
  • Parenting practices and governance in Latin America: the case of Costa Rica / Luis Diego Herrera
  • Education
  • Cultural values and parenting education / Sharon Lynn Kagan and Amy Lowenstein
  • Character education: restoring virtue to the mission of the schools / Thomas Lickona
  • Civic education and the development of civic knowledge and attitudes / Richard Niemi and Steven Finkel
  • Schooling open societies in Latin America / Fernando Reimers and Eleonora Villegas-Reimers
  • Religion
  • Evangelical expansion and 'progressive values' in the developing world / David Martin
  • Anglo-Protestant culture / Samuel Huntington
  • The development of the Jews / Jim Lederman
  • Culture begins with cult: the surprising growth of the Catholic people / Michael Novak
  • Re-imagining the Orthodox tradition: nurturing democratic values in Orthodox Christian civilization / Nikolas Gvosdev, with a response by Georges Prevelakis
  • Market development, political change, and Chinese cultures / Robert Weller
  • Buddhist economics in Asia / Christal Whelan
  • Cultural change in Islamic civilization / Bassam Tibi
  • Islam matters: culture and progress in the Muslim world / Robert Hefner
  • Hinduism and modernity / Pratap Bhanu Mehta
  • The media
  • Journalism and values / Mariano Grondona and Carlos Alberto Montaner
  • The global battle for cultural domination / Reese Schonfeld
  • Leadership
  • Public policy and culture / Richard Lamm
  • Development projects
  • Donor projects and culture change: the case of Costa Rica / James Fox
  • Can social capital be constructed? Decentralization and social capital formation in Latin America / Mitchell Seligson

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