It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene. ❋ Mark Levine (2010)
Here I find the similarity between historiography of Chinese ethnology and of world history: first, both studied assumed units (civilizations or minzus), then moved to relations or interactions among units, and finally noticed the emerging ecumene (world-system, or the Chinese nation). back ❋ Unknown (2008)
Perhaps the most relevant aspect of Appadurai's perspective is the distinction he finds between the forms of knowledge held by producers and consumers in relation to the commodities that unite and distinguish them, and the important role intermediate merchant communities play in bridging, or not bridging, those gaps in commodity knowledge across the various trajectories of the ecumene. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A living ‘Europe’ is therefore arising today as a branch of the all-human ecumene…. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)
It seems to me that his words might be taken as summing up and encapsulating the legitimate insights of both halves of the now sundered Christian ecumene: ❋ Mike L (2007)
Important features of this ecumene were the great empires, which provided large, secure areas for trade and the wealth and power necessary for basic economic development and political stability. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Central Eurasia witnessed the development of strong herding societies all along the northern regions of the ecumene. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The confederation disintegrated by the 1st century C.E., but the HUN descendants of the Xiongnu affected all the civilizations of the ecumene. ❋ Unknown (2001)
By the early 18th century, the military power and centralized absolutism of the Russian Empire brought the superiority of nomadic cavalry to an end and the Eurasian steppes into the ecumene. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The Eastern Hemisphere ecumene continued to expand through trade, the spread of religions, migrations of peoples, and conquests. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Although imperial systems collapsed in many areas by 500 C.E., the broader ecumene continued to expand. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Entirely separate from the Eastern Hemisphere ecumene, WESTERN HEMISPHERE societies developed major temple-palace civilizations in the Mexican highlands around Teotihuacán, in the MAYAN areas of the Yucatán Peninsula, and in the Andes around great cities like Tihuanaco. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The Greek concept of the ecumene, sometimes translated as the inhabited or inhabitable world, is clearly related to the modern ecological concept of the biosphere — the thin film of air, water, and soil on the surface of the earth, upon which all life depends, and within which it exists. ❋ RAYMOND F. DASMANN (1968)
conquering [hunger] in the Third World should be the ecumenical preoccupation of all people, regardless of [faith], in [the Western] world. ❋ Sexydimma (2013)
If [you came] to understand that the 'virgin birth' was ecumenically contrived, would you still need to [believe it]? What about [walking on water]...? ❋ YAWA (2018)
