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Corporate Social Responsibility in China
Over the years, many corporations have been trying to determine what they can and should do to contribute to the sustainability of the economic, social and ecological environment within which they operate. Corporate social responsibility has become a key senior management issue worldwide and an increasingly debated topic in China. This book aims at helping companies operating in China to better assess and exercise their corporate social responsibility (CSR) in specific contexts. The purpose of this book is to show that CSR has a strong economic pay back in the long run, that it is a key success factor in nurturing corporate excellence, and that a sense of urgency and accrued inventiveness ar...
Shanghai Sacred
Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha'ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religious landscape of the city, offering a new paradigm for the study of Chinese spirituality that reflects the global trends shaping Chinese culture and civil society. Based on years of fieldwork, incorporating both comparative and methodological perspectives, Shanghai Sacred demonstrates how religions are lived, constructed, and thus inscribed into the social imaginary of the metropolis. Evocative photographs by Liz Hingley enrich and interact with the narrative, making the book an innovative contribution to religious visual ethnography.
Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China
Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings. The author lays bare distinguishable patterns of textual composition while relating them to corresponding patterns of thinking. He differentiates rhetorical variants through detailed studies of the Zhuangzi's Inner chapters, the Laozi, the Analects, and the Huainanzi. The philosophical depth and relevance of the Chinese ancient worldview appear in a fresh light when one unearths the patterns into which its content is embedded. The focus on textual patterns and rhetorical arrangements also facilitates the reading of Chinese classics alongside other traditions. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars and graduate students studying Chinese literary criticism, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies
Vermander revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "comparative philosophy" is conducted today. In the vulgate of intellectual history, "Western thought" has constructed a substantialist view of reality that puts "relations" and "processes" into a subordinate position. The same view explains for the primacy given to the autonomy of individual beings. In contrast, according to the same vulgate, Chinese thought has been stressing the fluidity of all phenomena and forms of life to best adapt to their overarching patterns. The critique of these representations is a preliminary for tackling the following question: in today’s context, ...
L'Empire sans milieu
" Empire sans milieu " dont les effervescences dessinent un champ de forces en recomposition perpétuelle, la Chine aujourd'hui affronte une crise religieuse paradoxale. D'un côté s'y donne à lire une " sortie de la religion ", dont les caractéristiques conduisent à se demander si toute religion ne porte pas en soi les germes de son dépassement. D'un autre, la religion en Chine est aussi le lieu d'une fièvre, d'un sourd braconnage qui structure autrement l'espace social. Croisant au long de sa réflexion des auteurs chinois mais aussi Marcel Gauchet, Michel de Certeau ou Joseph Moingt, Benoît Vermander explore ici la recomposition globale de la condition religieuse.
Dieu partagé
Aller aux frontières, découvrir des horizons nouveaux, dépasser les barrières et nos limites pour annoncer l’Evangile... Plus de 450 ans avant l’exhortation apostolique La Joie de l’Evangile du Pape François, le jésuite François Xavier (1506-1552) a entendu l’appel à déplacer au plus loin les frontières de la chrétienté. Il a effectué un extraordinaire périple, dont sa correspondance a donné des échos : ses découvertes étonnées de cultures si dissemblables de celle de l’occident, mais aussi sa transformation intérieure au fur et à mesure du voyage. Plus il s’éloigne de son point de départ, plus le Dieu qu’il croyait connaître le surprend. En quatorze thÃ...
