-- PART I: TIME Chapter 1. Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness/ Jörn Rüsen; Chapter 2. Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures/ Klaus E. Müller; Chapter 3. Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko/ Fritz W. Kramer; Chapter 4. Time Concepts in China/Achim Mittag; Chapter 5. Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India/Georg Berkemer; Chapter 6. Interpretations of Time in Islam/Otfried Weintritt; Chapter 7. Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity/ Harro Müller --PART II: HISTORYChapter 8. History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism/Aziz Al-Azmeh; Chapter 9. Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue/ Abdullahi A. An-Na’im; Chapter 10. Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India/ B. D. Chattopadhyaya; Chapter 11. Politics of Historical Sense Generation/ D. L. Sheth; Chapter 12. Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity/ Michael Gottlob; Chapter 13. The Search for Scholarly Identity—Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
Masayuki Sato; Chapter 14. History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan/Shingo Shimada

This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies