Religion and Modernization in Southeast Asia (Book Review)

Religion and Modernization in Southeast Asia (Book Review)

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the book which was written by Fred.R.Vonder Mehden, an Albert Thomas Professor of Political Science, at Rice University, Houston, is actually a result of efforts to understand the nature of th interrelationship of religion and modernization in Southeast Asia in the light of the theoritical The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts assumptions presented by postwar social scientists.

It is no doubt that where as religions like Islam and Buddhism in countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand have acted both as inhibutors and agents of change, the social science literature spoke primarily to the negative role of rligion from the more possitive perspective.Mehden demonstrates the weakness of the theories developed SHOPPING CENTERS: UMA RELAÇÃO ENTRE OS ATRIBUTOS DE ESCOLHA PELOS CONSUMIDORES VERSUS OS ATRIBUTOS VALORIZADOS PELOS GERENTES by Social scientists in Western Europe and the U.S.

without adequate field research and embodying major biases and misconception about indigenous cultures and religions.