The Axial Age and its consequencesedited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas.
The Axial Age and its consequencesedited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (ix, 548 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Fundamental questions. The Axial Age debate as religious discourse / What was the Axial revolution? / An evolutionary approach to culture : implications for the study of the Axial Age / Embodiment, transcendence, and contingency : anthropological features of the Axial Age / The Axial Age in global history : cultural crystallizations and societal transformations / The Buddha's meditative trance : visionary knowledge, aphoristic thinking, and Axial Age rationality in early Buddhism / The idea of transcendence / A comparative perspective. Religion, the Axial Age, and secular modernity in Bellah's theory of religious evolution / Where do Axial commitments reside? : problems in thinking about the African case / The Axial Age theory : a challenge to historism or an explanatory device of civilization analysis? : with a look at the normative discourse in Axial Age China / Destructive possibilities? The Axial conundrum between transcendental visions and vicissitudes of their institutionalizations : constructive and destructive possibilities / Axial religions and the problem of violence / Righteous rebels : when, where, and why? / Reevaluations. Rehistoricizing the Axial Age / Cultural memory and the myth of the Axial Age / Perspectives on the future. The Axial invention of education and today's global knowledge culture / The future of transcendence : a sociological agenda / The heritage of the Axial Age : resource or burden? / Hans Joas -- Charles Taylor -- Merlin Donald -- Matthias Jung -- Björn Wittrock -- Gananath Obeyesekere -- Ingolf U. Dalferth -- José Casanova -- Ann Swidler -- Heiner Roetz -- Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- David Martin -- W.G. Runciman -- Johann P. Arnason -- Jan Assmann -- William M. Sullivan -- Richard Madsen -- Robert N. Bellah.
9780674067400
Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.
Comparative civilization--Congresses.
Philosophy, Comparative--Congresses.
Religions--Congresses.
Electronic Books.
CB311 / .A953 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Fundamental questions. The Axial Age debate as religious discourse / What was the Axial revolution? / An evolutionary approach to culture : implications for the study of the Axial Age / Embodiment, transcendence, and contingency : anthropological features of the Axial Age / The Axial Age in global history : cultural crystallizations and societal transformations / The Buddha's meditative trance : visionary knowledge, aphoristic thinking, and Axial Age rationality in early Buddhism / The idea of transcendence / A comparative perspective. Religion, the Axial Age, and secular modernity in Bellah's theory of religious evolution / Where do Axial commitments reside? : problems in thinking about the African case / The Axial Age theory : a challenge to historism or an explanatory device of civilization analysis? : with a look at the normative discourse in Axial Age China / Destructive possibilities? The Axial conundrum between transcendental visions and vicissitudes of their institutionalizations : constructive and destructive possibilities / Axial religions and the problem of violence / Righteous rebels : when, where, and why? / Reevaluations. Rehistoricizing the Axial Age / Cultural memory and the myth of the Axial Age / Perspectives on the future. The Axial invention of education and today's global knowledge culture / The future of transcendence : a sociological agenda / The heritage of the Axial Age : resource or burden? / Hans Joas -- Charles Taylor -- Merlin Donald -- Matthias Jung -- Björn Wittrock -- Gananath Obeyesekere -- Ingolf U. Dalferth -- José Casanova -- Ann Swidler -- Heiner Roetz -- Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- David Martin -- W.G. Runciman -- Johann P. Arnason -- Jan Assmann -- William M. Sullivan -- Richard Madsen -- Robert N. Bellah.
9780674067400
Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.
Comparative civilization--Congresses.
Philosophy, Comparative--Congresses.
Religions--Congresses.
Electronic Books.
CB311 / .A953 2012