Civil Society and Social Reconstruction

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I NATURE AND MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY Chapter I. Philosophy and Civil Society: Its Nature,Its Past and Its Future by George F. McLean Chapter II. Three Models of Civil Society in the Framing of the U.S. Republic: 1781-1789 by Stephen Schneck PART II PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE Chapter III. Community, Coercion and Civil Society:Constructive Pluralism or Servile State? by Charles Dechert Chapter IV. The State, Development, and Civil Society:the Case of Algeria by Chaoura Bourouh Chapter V. Multiculturalism and the Bounds of Civil Society by William Barbieri PART UI THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY Chapter VI. Quantitative and Qualitative Growth in Industrial Global Society by Mono Laserna Chapter VII. Hospitality, Community, and Literary Reading and Writing by Rosemary Winslow Chapter VIII. Rituals and Public Life: Their Role in the Process of Social Reconstruction, by David H. Power Chapter IX. "The Family:" Obstacle or Embryo of Civil Society? by Paul Peachey Chapter X. Neighborhoods by John Kromkowski Chapter XI. Notes on an International Civil Society:A Comment on the Report of the Commission on Global Governance by Antonio Perez Chapter XII. Public Confidence Building Measures as Examples of Civil Society Initiatives: A Practical Perspective by Ivan Angelov and Harry Alexiev PARTIVMETAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY Chapter XIII. Current Humanoids and the Return to Civil Society by Richard Khuri Chapter XIV. Religious Experience and Civil Society by Joseph G. Danders Chapter XV. America`s Quest for a New Moral Bedrock- A Muslim Perspective by Mustafa Malik Chapter XVI. The Four Goals of Life in Hindu Thought as Principles for a Civil Society by Varghese Manimala Chapter XVII. Iniquity and Retribution in The Hindu-Buddhist Sources by Chanchal Bhattacharya Chapter XVIII. Civil Equality of Religions in Society by Florencio R. Riguera