CULTURAL HERITAGE ABD CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I. CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 16

 

CIVIL SOCIETY and

SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION

edited by

GEORGE F. McLEAN

 

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART I NATURE AND MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY

Chapter I. Philosophy and Civil Society: Its Nature, Its Past and Its Future

by George F. McLean

Chapter II. Three Models of Civil Society in the Framing of the U.S. Republic: 1781-1789

by Stephen Schneck

PART II PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE

Chapter III. Community, Coercion and Civil Society: Constructive Pluralism or Servile State?

by Charles Dechert

Chapter IV. The State, Development, and Civil Society: the Case of Algeria

by Chaoura Bourouh

Chapter V. Multiculturalism and the Bounds of Civil Society

by William Barbieri

PART III THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY

Chapter VI. Quantitative and Qualitative Growth in Industrial Global Society

by Mario Laserna

Chapter VII. Hospitality, Community, and Literary Reading and Writing

by Rosemary Winslow

Chapter VIII. Rituals and Public Life: Their Role in the Process of Social Reconstruction.

by David H. Power

Chapter IX. "The Family": Obstacle or Embryo of Civil Society

by Paul Peachey

Chapter X. Neighborhoods

by John Kromkowski

Chapter XI. Notes on an International Civil Society: A Comment on the Report of the Commission on Global Governance

by Antonio Perez

Chapter XII. Public Confidence Building Measures as Examples of Civil Society Initiatives: A Practical Perspective

by Ivan Angelov and Harry Alexiev

PART IV METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY

Chapter XIII. Current Humanoids and the Return to Civil Society

by Richard Khuri

Chapter XIV. Religious Experience and Civil Society

by Joseph G. Donders

Chapter XV. America’s Quest for a New Moral Bedrock—A Muslim Perspective

by Mustafa Malik

Chapter XVI. The Four Goals of Life in Hindu Thought as Principles for a Civil Society

by Varghese Manimala

Chapter XVII. Iniquity and Retribution in The Hindu-Buddhist Sources

by Chanchal Bhattacharya

Chapter XVIII. Civil Equality of Religions in Society

by Florencio R. Riguera