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000484883 24504 $$aThe Axial Age and its consequences$$h[electronic resource] /$$cedited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas.
000484883 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2012.
000484883 300__ $$a1 online resource (ix, 548 p.)
000484883 500__ $$aRev. papers delivered at a conference held July 3-5, 2008 at the University of Erfurt.
000484883 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000484883 5050_ $$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.
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000484883 520__ $$aThis book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.
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000484883 650_0 $$aCivilization, Ancient$$vCongresses.
000484883 650_0 $$aComparative civilization$$vCongresses.
000484883 650_0 $$aPhilosophy, Comparative$$vCongresses.
000484883 650_0 $$aReligions$$vCongresses.
000484883 7001_ $$aBellah, Robert N.$$q(Robert Neelly),$$d1927-2013.
000484883 7001_ $$aJoas, Hans,$$d1948-
000484883 77608 $$iPrint version:$$tAxial Age and its consequences.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  2012$$z9780674066496$$w(DLC) 2012008329$$w(OCoLC)784708285
000484883 85280 $$bebk$$hHarvard University Press
000484883 85640 $$3Harvard University Press$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067400$$zOnline Access
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