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245 0 4 _aThe Axial Age and its consequences
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (ix, 548 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aFundamental 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.
588 _aDescription based on online resource; title from .pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed November 6, 2012).
650 0 _aCivilization, Ancient
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aComparative civilization
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aPhilosophy, Comparative
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aReligions
_vCongresses.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / General
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aBellah, Robert Neelly,
_d1927-
700 1 _aJoas, Hans,
_d1948-
711 2 _aConference "Axial Age and Its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present"
_d(2008 :
_cErfurt, Germany)
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tAxial age and its consequences.
_dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012
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