TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLean, George F.
TI  - Civil society and social reconstruction
SN  - 0819173576
AV  - JC 336 C499 1996
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy
KW  - CIVIL SOCIETY
KW  - CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
KW  - PHILOSOPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
N1  - Include bibliographical references and index; PART I NATURE AND MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter I. Philosophy and civil society: its nature, its past and its future --
Chapter II. Three models of civil society in the framing of the U.S. Republic: 1781-1789 --

PART II PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE --
Chapter III. Community, coercion and civil society: constructive pluralism or servile state? --
Chapter IV. The state, development, and civil society: in the case of Algeria --
Chapter V. Multiculturalism and the bounds of civil society --

PART III THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter VI. Quantitative and qualitative growth in industrial global society --
Chapter VII. Hospitality, community, and literary reading and writing --
Chapter VIII. Rituals and public life: their role in the process of social reconstruction --
Chapter IX. "The family": Obstacle or Embryo of civil society --
Chapter X. Neighborhoods --
Chapter XI. Notes on an international civil society: a comment on the report of the commission on global governance --
Chapter XII. Public confidence building measures as examples of civil society initiatives: a practical perspective --

PART IV METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter XIII. Current humanoids and the return to civil society --
Chapter XIV. Religious experience and civil society --
Chapter XV. America's quest for a new moral bedrock-a Muslim perspective --
Chapter XVI. The four goals of life in Hindu thought as principles for a civil society --
Chapter XVII. Iniquity and retribution in the Hindu-Buddhist sources --
Chapter XVIII. Civil equality of religions in society
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