The Bellah, Robert Neelly 1927- Joas, Hans 1948- Conference "Axial Age and Its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present" (2008 : Erfurt, Germany) text bibliography conference publication Electronic books. mau Cambridge, Mass Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (ix, 548 p.) 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. edited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas. Includes bibliographical references and index. Civilization, Ancient Congresses Comparative civilization Congresses Philosophy, Comparative Congresses Religions Congresses HISTORY / Ancient / General CB311 .A885 2012eb 930 Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2012008329 (OCoLC)784708285 9780674067400 (electronic bk.) 0674067401 (electronic bk.) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494500 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494500 N$T 121106 20200709055620.0 ocn816110086