Introduction / Lawrence Harrison -- Child rearing -- Culture, values, and the family / Jerome Kagan -- Parenting practices and governance in Latin America: the case of Costa Rica / Luis Diego Herrera -- Education -- Cultural values and parenting education / Sharon Lynn Kagan and Amy Lowenstein -- Character education: restoring virtue to the mission of the schools / Thomas Lickona -- Civic education and the development of civic knowledge and attitudes / Richard Niemi and Steven Finkel -- Schooling open societies in Latin America / Fernando Reimers and Eleonora Villegas-Reimers -- Religion -- Evangelical expansion and 'progressive values' in the developing world / David Martin -- Anglo-Protestant culture / Samuel Huntington -- The development of the Jews / Jim Lederman -- Culture begins with cult: the surprising growth of the Catholic people / Michael Novak -- Re-imagining the Orthodox tradition: nurturing democratic values in Orthodox Christian civilization / Nikolas Gvosdev, with a response by Georges Prevelakis -- Market development, political change, and Chinese cultures / Robert Weller -- Buddhist economics in Asia / Christal Whelan -- Cultural change in Islamic civilization / Bassam Tibi -- Islam matters: culture and progress in the Muslim world / Robert Hefner -- Hinduism and modernity / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- The media -- Journalism and values / Mariano Grondona and Carlos Alberto Montaner -- The global battle for cultural domination / Reese Schonfeld -- Leadership -- Public policy and culture / Richard Lamm -- Development projects -- Donor projects and culture change: the case of Costa Rica / James Fox -- Can social capital be constructed? Decentralization and social capital formation in Latin America / Mitchell Seligson.