The Axial Age and its consequences  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  2012. 
 - 1 online resource (ix, 548 p.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674067400 (electronic bk.) 0674067401 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.<br/>Comparative civilization--Congresses.<br/>Philosophy, Comparative--Congresses.<br/>Religions--Congresses.<br/>HISTORY / Ancient / General
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CB311  / .A885 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>930