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Comparative Civilizations Review Volume 66 Article 20 Number 66 Spring 2012 4-1-2012 Full Issue Comparative Civilizations Review Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr Recommended Citation Review, Comparative Civilizations (2012) "Full Issue," Comparative Civilizations Review: Vol. 66 : No. 66 , Article 20. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol66/iss66/20 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Comparative Civilizations Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Review: Full Issue COMPARATIVE Comparative Civilizations Review No. 66 Spring 2012 Spring 66 No. Review Civilizations Comparative CIVILIZATIONS REVIEW Membership Information No. 66 Spring 2012 If you are not a member if the ISCSC please consider joining. For a $50 yearly membership fee members receive a one year subscription to Editor’s Note this journal, are invited to attend the annual conference, receive the ISCSC Newsletter, and may participate in ongoing dialogues. What is the Difference Between Culture and Civilization? Membership is open to all interested in civilizations. Visit Thorsten Botz-Bornstein www.wmich.edu/ISCSC for further information and to join the Society. A New Orleans Connection: The Feibleman-Toynbee Interface To Obtain Issues of This Journal James B. Sullivan Soft cover issues of this journal may be purchased from Amazon.com, Local Civilization and Political Decency: Equilibrium and the Position of the bn.com or from other Internet booksellers. CD and other electronic Sultanate in Java Hisanori Kato copies of this issue may be obtained from the H.W. Wilson web site at www.hwwilson.com or the ProQuest website at www.proquest.com. Coming soon to EBSCO Electronic Journals Service. Fire and Force: Civilization and Noosphere in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo Upcoming 2012 ISCSC Conference A Brief History of International Money Supply Systems in Major Civilizations Kazutake Miyahara The 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations will take place on June 6-9, 2012 at Geo-Civilization DeVry University, Crystal City, VA. Against the backdrop of Ruan Wei Washington DC, the Society will host an international conference on the ascendance of China. See conference information and the Call for The 1961 Conference of the ISCSC: Notes and Summaries Papers Inside for details. Michael Palencia-Roth Book Reviews Call for Papers ISCSC International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012 1 Comparative Civilizations Review, Vol. 66 [2012], No. 66, Art. 20 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Senior Editor and Publisher Joseph Drew Laina Farhat-Holzman [email protected] [email protected] Peer Review Editor Book Review Editor David Rosner David Wilkinson [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor Manuscript Editor Dario Fernandez-Morera Walter Benesch [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor Technical Editor Connie Lamb Thomas Rienzo [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor John Reilly [email protected] Prof. Andrew Targowski President, International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations Scholarly Senate of the Former Presidents of the ISCSC Prof. Wayne N. 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Membership includes two issues of the journal per year. ISSN: ISBN: Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012 3 Comparative Civilizations Review, Vol. 66 [2012], No. 66, Art. 20 Table of Contents Editor’s Note ..................................................................................................................... 1 What is the Difference between Culture and Civilization? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ............................................................................................. 10 A New Orleans Connection: The Feibleman-Toynbee Interface James B. Sullivan ........................................................................................................ 29 Local Civilization and Political Decency: Equilibrium and the Position of the Sultanate in Java Hisanori Kato .............................................................................................................. 45 Fire and Force: Civilization as Noosphere in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo ....................................................................................... 58 A Brief History of International Money Supply Systems in Major Civilizations Kazutake Miyahara ..................................................................................................... 74 Geo-Civilization Ruan Wei .................................................................................................................... 91 The 1961 Conference of the ISCSC: Notes and Summaries Michael Palencia-Roth .............................................................................................. 106 Book Reviews ............................................................................................................... 143 Call for Papers............................................................................................................... 165 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol66/iss66/20 4 Review: Full Issue Comparative Civilizations Review 1 Editor’s Note During this Presidential cycle in the United States, a number of prominent politicians have consistently injected religion into politics. Michelle Bachmann may have been the first to do so, but she has been followed by Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and others. According to the great theoretician Max Weber, the scientist and the politician are separated by a very wide gulf, yet they are inextricably dependent upon each other. The politician, Weber wrote, must have passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion, “values.”1 The scientist, on the other hand, seeks to clarify and determine knowledge of interrelated facts. He or she must put on blinders and be intoxicated with making the correct conjecture on a passage in a document. Weber then goes on to assert that the separation between value and fact is aimed not only at clearly defining the logical essence of the two types of activity, their respective spheres and, consequently, the kind of problems each is capable of solving with the means peculiar to it, but also at enabling them to collaborate more successfully, because their very separateness will have eliminated confusions that would only have hampered them both.2 Some world leaders from various civilizations have been able to bridge this gap, crossing in their lives between the two zones. Shortly after David Ben Gurion became Prime Minister of Israel, he expressed a great interest in Asia and in the Asian philosophies. Ben Gurion said that “to get to know the moods and patterns of thought of the people of Asia, I sought to acquaint myself more intimately with the works of the man who had left the greatest imprint upon their minds. And so I began studying the writing of the Buddha, and I was quickly impressed with the extraordinary greatness of the man, a man of immense wisdom and immense courage.”3 His teachings were all on the rational and moral plane: what path should a man choose in life, for the good of himself and of all living creatures?4 The Prime Minister then compared Buddhism to Judaism. He said that even though Buddha denied the existence of God, his doctrine on moral behavior was similar to that of the Hebrew prophets. “The preaching of love of fellow man, for example, was very much the doctrine of the Hebrew Sages of old and of the prophets who lived in the ninth and eight centuries B.C. ‘Love they neighbor as thyself,’ indeed,