Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Series vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I TIME
6. Chapter 1: Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness 5
7. Chapter 2: Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures 19
8. Chapter 3: Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko 35
9. Chapter 4: Time Concepts in China 44
10. Chapter 5: Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India 65
11. Chapter 6: Interpretations of Time in Islam 85
12. Chapter 7: Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity 93
13. Part II HISTORY
14. Chapter 8: History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism 107
15. Chapter 9: Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue 135
16. Chapter 10: Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India 151
17. Chapter 11: Politics of Historical Sense Generation 169
18. Chapter 12: Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity 179
19. Chapter 13: The Search for Scholarly Identity—Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan 200
20. Chapter 14: History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan 212
21. Bibliography 224
22. Notes on the Contributors 241
23. Index of Names 245