The dialogue of civilizations

An Eisenstadt legacy

Bibliographic Data

ID2404679
AuthorsDonald N Levine (University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume11
Issue3
Pages313-325
Publication date2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Classical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-795X • E-ISSN: 1741-2897
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468795x11406028
OpenAlexW2092465343
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

The thesis of a 'clash of civilizations,' famously voiced by Samuel Huntington in 1993, draws support from selected social science generalizations and the fact that all historical civilizations organized around core beliefs and values condemned outsiders. This thesis can be challenged by showing that civilizations are internally complex, including elements that also develop nonexclusionary themes; and by specifying a human need for 'dialogue' driven by compresent needs for attachment and differentiation. The historic emergence of those inclusionary sub-traditions can be documented by looking at the cases of Gandhi in India, Ueshiba in Japan, and a number of historic and contemporary figures in the Abrahamic civilizations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Christianity · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Islam · Judaism · Sociology · Theology · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies

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