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Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across geophysical and cultural borders have a historical depth that enables us to explore globalisation and localisation in new ways. Transculturality is still a relatively new field of research in the Humanities through which we sharpen our competence and ‘literacy’ to come to terms with the complexity of globalised cultures. This volume ventures into new domains of research on the transculturality of images and addresses the need to develop new or modify established often ethno- and Eurocentric interpretations of what happens when images travel. It does so by bringing together cutting-edge research from fields such as art history, cultural anthropology, colonial history, Islamic studies, religious studies and literary criticism.

Cross-cultural studies. --- Culture. --- Journalism & Communications --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Communication & Mass Media --- Visual communication. --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Culture --- Anthropology. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Communication --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Human beings --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Asien. --- Westliche Welt. --- Westliche Staaten --- Westen --- Der Westen --- Kapitalistische Staaten --- Industriestaaten --- Westmächte --- Nichtwestliche Welt --- Asiaten --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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"A number of Western states and institutions have sought to come to terms with their relationships to non-Western states and peoples. Powerful actors and institutions are apologizing to the relatively powerless. What do these apologies mean? Are they an indication of a new international order, either politically or as they relate to international law? Or are these apologies fleeting and insignificant? In The Age of Apology twenty-two law, politics, and human rights scholars explore the legal, political, social, historical, moral, religious, and anthropological aspects of Western apologies in an attempt to answer these questions. Conversely, a nonapology might be as important to study, and several chapters discuss the absence or refusal of apology and how this might be interpreted."--Publisher description. "In a turnabout of the cynical belief that might makes right, nations now see fit to issue apologies to peoples and countries they have wronged. We live in an age that seeks to establish political truth, perhaps best exemplified by the creation of truth commissions in societies seeking to emerge from dictatorial pasts. The most noteworthy result of these efforts has been the near-universal realization that a society will not be able successfully to pass into the future until it somehow deals with the horrors of its past.

Apologizing --- Civilisation occidentale --- Civilization, Western --- Commissions vérité et réconciliation. --- Dekolonisatie. --- Entschuldigung. --- Excuses (Regret) --- Excuses (Regret). --- Historisch besef. --- Indigenes Volk. --- Internationale Politik. --- Internationales Recht. --- Juridische aspecten. --- Kolonialismus. --- Menschenrechtsverletzung. --- Politieke aspecten. --- Politische Ethik. --- Reparationen. --- Reparations for historical injustices. --- Réparations des crimes de l'histoire. --- Sociale aspecten. --- Truth commissions. --- Vergangenheitsbewältigung. --- Verontschuldiging. --- Versöhnung. --- Verzeihung. --- Wahrheitskommission. --- Wiedergutmachung. --- atrocités --- commission vérité et réconciliation --- dommage --- Political aspects. --- Historiographie. --- Historiography. --- Aspect politique. --- Excuse --- Occident --- Politique --- Réparation --- Droit humanitaire --- Injustice --- Nichtwestliche Welt. --- Westliche Welt.

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This study is an attempt to reorient the field of Chinese linguistics from the perspective of the new field of cultural interaction studies. The author, approaching Chinese linguistics from the periphery, examines such topics as the spread of Western learning and linguistic contact and Westerners' study of Chinese: He studies materials produced by Western missionaries and Ryukyuan materials to show the validity and usefulness of Chinese linguistics in the field of cultural interaction studies. In addition, he looks at cultural interaction through illustrations.

Intercultural communication --- Westliche Welt --- China --- Rotchina --- Zhongguo --- Zhongguo-Diguo --- Kaiserreich Zhongguo --- Chung-kuo --- Zhonghua-minguo --- Chung-hua-min-kuo --- Zhonghua-Renmin-Gongheguo --- Kaiserreich China --- PRC --- Shinkoku --- Chung-hua-jen-min-kung-ho-kuo --- Zhonghua --- Volksrepublik China --- VR China --- People's Republic of China --- Zhong guo --- Zhonghua renmin gongheguo --- République populaire de Chine --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Chine --- KNR --- Chinese People's Republic --- Kytajsʹkaja Narodnaja Respublika --- Chinese People’s Republic --- Republic of China --- Chung-hua min kuo --- 中华人民共和国 --- Chinesen --- Taiwan --- Westliche Staaten --- Westen --- Der Westen --- Kapitalistische Staaten --- Industriestaaten --- Westmächte --- Nichtwestliche Welt

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"Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad. In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. In Faces of Muhammad, John Tolan provides a comprehensive history of these changing, complex, and contradictory visions. Starting from the earliest calls to the faithful to join the Crusades against the "Saracens," he traces the evolution of Western conceptions of Muhammad through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present day. Faces of Muhammad reveals a lengthy tradition of positive portrayals of Muhammad that many will find surprising. To Reformation polemicists, the spread of Islam attested to the corruption of the established Church, and prompted them to depict Muhammad as a champion of reform. In revolutionary England, writers on both sides of the conflict drew parallels between Muhammad and Oliver Cromwell, asking whether the prophet was a rebel against legitimate authority or the bringer of a new and just order. Voltaire first saw Muhammad as an archetypal religious fanatic but later claimed him as an enemy of superstition. To Napoleon, he was simply a role model: a brilliant general, orator, and leader. The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the founder of Islam"

Islam --- History of Europe --- Muhammad --- 297*35 --- 297.167 --- 297.167 Islam: stichter: Mohammed --- Islam: stichter: Mohammed --- 297*35 Islam en het Westen --- Islam en het Westen --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Public opinion --- Muḥammad, --- Mahomed, --- Maḥmūd, --- Mahomet, --- Mohammed, --- Magomet, --- Mu-han-mo-te, --- Nabi Muhammad, --- Mukhammed, --- Maometto, --- Mahometto, --- Mohammad, --- Mahoma, --- Muḥamad, --- מוחמד --- מוחמד, --- ، محمد --- النبي محمد --- محمد --- محمد الرسول --- محمد النبي --- محمد، نبي --- محمد، پيامبر --- محمد، --- محمدو --- محمد, --- محمد. --- ممحمد، --- Public opinion. --- Islamic countries --- Europe --- Relations --- محمد الرسول, --- محمد النبي, --- Muḥammad --- Appréciation --- Cristianisme i altres religions --- Islamisme --- Apreciació --- Interpretacions cristianes --- Europe. --- Islamic countries. --- Western countries. --- Westliche Welt --- Westliche Staaten --- Westen --- Der Westen --- Kapitalistische Staaten --- Industriestaaten --- Westmächte --- Nichtwestliche Welt --- Occident --- Western countries --- Western nations --- Western world --- Developed countries --- Muslim countries --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia