TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellah,Robert Neelly
AU  - Joas,Hans
ED  - Conference "Axial Age and Its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present"
TI  - The Axial Age and its consequencesedited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas
SN  - 9780674067400
AV  - CB311 .A953 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Civilization, Ancient
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Comparative civilization
KW  - Philosophy, Comparative
KW  - Religions
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Fundamental questions. The Axial Age debate as religious discourse; Hans Joas --; What was the Axial revolution?; Charles Taylor --; An evolutionary approach to culture : implications for the study of the Axial Age; Merlin Donald --; Embodiment, transcendence, and contingency : anthropological features of the Axial Age; Matthias Jung --; The Axial Age in global history : cultural crystallizations and societal transformations; Björn Wittrock --; The Buddha's meditative trance : visionary knowledge, aphoristic thinking, and Axial Age rationality in early Buddhism; Gananath Obeyesekere --; The idea of transcendence; Ingolf U. Dalferth --; A comparative perspective. Religion, the Axial Age, and secular modernity in Bellah's theory of religious evolution; José Casanova --; Where do Axial commitments reside? : problems in thinking about the African case; Ann Swidler --; 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; Heiner Roetz --; Destructive possibilities? The Axial conundrum between transcendental visions and vicissitudes of their institutionalizations : constructive and destructive possibilities; Shmuel N. Eisenstadt --; Axial religions and the problem of violence; David Martin --; Righteous rebels : when, where, and why?; W.G. Runciman --; Reevaluations. Rehistoricizing the Axial Age; Johann P. Arnason --; Cultural memory and the myth of the Axial Age; Jan Assmann --; Perspectives on the future. The Axial invention of education and today's global knowledge culture; William M. Sullivan --; The future of transcendence : a sociological agenda; Richard Madsen --; The heritage of the Axial Age : resource or burden?; Robert N. Bellah; 2; b
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