This was to speed up the process of modernisation and to serve as an economic stimulus.
It is crucial not to confuse the process of modernisation with westernisation.
As other churches can attest, the process of modernisation can be too fast for some and slow for others.
During the Enlightenment Jews joined their fellow Europeans in the process of modernisation and secularisation, hoping they would, at last, be accepted by European society.
His purpose, rather, is to locate it in the longer-term context of the effects of the Enlightenment, imperialism and world industrial revolution as the process of "modernisation", born in Europe, took hold in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The briefing paper explains that the bigger salaries are "part of the process of modernisation of the BMA, recognising the ever-increasing demands on the BMA's chief officers" and are intended to ensure that top talent from within the medical profession take on senior BMA jobs.
These agrarian schemes illustrate the newfound faith that 'rural up-lift' could only be sustained if farming communities were trained to 'help themselves' by investing physically and psychologically in the process of modernisation.
Additionally, we should also develop and innovate spiritual products of philosophy and social sciences that are consistent with the cultural development of our times, so as to guide people's world views during the process of modernisation and post-modernisation.
This is the product of the advancing process of modernisation in Saudi society, with growing urbanisation, mass education, tens of thousands of foreign-taught students, and widespread communication media, with one of the region's highest percentages of internet users (almost 40%, double that of Egypt).
