Over the past two decades, the information systems community has become engaged in improving the environmental effects of information systems and technologies, which has given rise to the green IS field. Despite increasing interest, some have suggested that progress toward meaningful solutions for sustainability has been too slow. Responding to these concerns, we examine the development of gree...

T here was a time in the 1980s when it seemed that every book published in American history in this country addressed, from one angle or another, the trinity of class, race and gender. Much valuable work resulted, although one sometimes felt these keywords were invoked more for their sanctifying effect than their analytic power. In the 1990s in the field of Japanese historical, cultural and lit...

The present study has been carried out with the objectives to find out the effect of parental education on the modernity of college students. The sample of the study constituted of 120 students. There were two groups of students. 60 students constituting the 1 st group were the son of those parents who are highly educated. The other 60 students of the 2 nd group are the son of those who are ill...

In 1966 Hans Blumenberg published Die Legitimitat der Neuzeit, which launched the Lowith-Blumenberg debate over the nature of secularization and the legitimacy of the modern age. ' The widespread discussion the book generated prompted Blumenberg to prepare a revised and expanded three-volume edition between 1973 and 1976. A decade later, with the debate still going strong, Robert M. Wallace mad...

This study examines understandings of misfortune among east London Bangladeshis, particularly with respect to the role of jinn spirits. It reports on the findings of ethnographic interviews among 40 members of this community. Appeal to jinn explanations is commonplace at times of psychological disturbance and unexplained physical symptoms. Resort to traditional healers is frequent. These explan...

Editor’s introduction: This succinct presentation by one of the world’s great scholars of Mongolian Buddhism summarizes the challenges that Buddhism has faced and continues to face in Mongolia. Amid historical reconsideration and revisionism – and continuing propaganda – it is important to acknowledge and understand, as Dr. Wallace conveys, the enormity of repression faced by Buddhism, as Mongo...