03737nam a2200481Ka 4500 ocn816110086 OCoLC 20200709055620.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 121106s2012 mau ob 101 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780674067400 (electronic bk.) 0674067401 (electronic bk.) 9780674066496 (electronic bk.) 0674066499 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)816110086 494500 (N$T) CB311 .A885 2012eb HIS 002000 bisacsh 930 23 N$TA 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.) Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Description based on online resource; title from .pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed November 6, 2012). Civilization, Ancient Congresses. Comparative civilization Congresses. Philosophy, Comparative Congresses. Religions Congresses. HISTORY / Ancient / General bisacsh Electronic books. Bellah, Robert Neelly, 1927- Joas, Hans, 1948- Conference "Axial Age and Its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present" (2008 : Erfurt, Germany) Print version: Axial age and its consequences. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 9780674066496 (DLC) 2012008329 (OCoLC)784708285 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494500 EBSCOhost EBSC 494500 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51807 51807