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 consequences
SN  - 9780674067400 (electronic bk.)
AV  - CB311 .A885 2012eb
U1  - 930 23
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  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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