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Modernity and inter‐imperiality: Rethinking social theory in East Asia

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract This paper aims to contribute to global social theory by contextualizing modernity/coloniality in East Asia. It begins with a reconstruction and evaluation of three sociological accounts of East Asian modernity, namely Kazuko Tsurumi's theory of endogenous development, Sun Liping's theory of communist civilization, and Chang Kyung Sup's theory
Hon‐Fai Chen
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Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759

open access: yesReligions
This article treats the familiar triad “Gold, God, and Glory” as a heuristic to track how commercial, missionary, and reputational aims were configured within overlapping jurisdictions of the Portuguese world.
Boyu Fang
doaj   +1 more source

Malaysia, Truly Asia? Religious Pluralism in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The spectacular economic growth of Malaysia in recent years has greatly impacted the state of religious pluralism in Malaysia. However, this growth has also created an attitude of indifference, if not silence, when it comes to matters pertaining to ...
Christopher Rodney Yeoh
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SPIRITUALISME RATU KALINYAMAT: Kontroversi Tapa Wuda Sinjang Rambut Kanjeng Ratu di Jepara Jawa Tengah

open access: yesEl Harakah, 2013
In Javanese tradition, patriarchal culture is hold strongly though it cannot be generalized as a necessity. The emergence of Queen Kalinyamat as the representation of Javanese woman apparently indicates a contrary to the mainstream Javanese tradition ...
Nur Said
doaj   +1 more source

Memories of sandalwood: Malacca, Timor attractor and Solor's channel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this work we present a somewhat extensive review, mainly of historical nature, focusing on the period that Malacca was under Portuguese suzerainty (1511-1641), concerning the subject of sandalwood routes from Timor, making warehouse in the archipelago
Casquilho, José Pinto
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Unloving Mothers: Jesuit Knowledge Production on Abortion and Infanticide in Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries*

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 230-244, June 2025.
LINDA ZAMPOL D'ORTIA
wiley   +1 more source

Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later [PDF]

open access: yes
In his seminal publications between the 1930s and 1960s, Frederick Lane offered three hypotheses regarding the impact of the Voyages of Discovery that have guided debate ever since. First, pepper and other spice prices did not rise in European markets in
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Kevin H. O'Rourke
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Las cofradías de Misericordia y las transferencias de bienes: el caso de los Monteiro, entre Porto y Asia (1580-1640) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Os testamentos de dois mercadores da mesma família, envolvidos na viagem do Japão, Antônio e Domingos Monteiro, revelam um modo de vida marcado pela mobilidade entre vários territórios do Sudeste Asiático, transacionando grande variedade de produtos. Por
Sá, Isabel dos Guimarães
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Off the Edge of the Map: The Search for Portuguese Influence on the Piri Reis Map of 1513

open access: yes, 2012
Left tattered after centuries of ware, hidden in the walls of Topkapı Sarayı, the 1513 map of the Ottoman cartographer Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin Piri has not been properly contextualized in light of Portuguese cartography of the time.
Bridges, Robert S.
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