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The axial age and its consequences / edited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas.
Penn Museum Library CB311 .A885 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Comparative civilization--Congresses.
- Comparative civilization.
- Philosophy, Comparative--Congresses.
- Philosophy, Comparative.
- Religions--Congresses.
- Religions.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 548 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0674066499
- 9780674066496
- OCLC:
- 784708285
- Publisher Number:
- 99950867339
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