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Axial civilizations and world history /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Colección: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ;
v. 4. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
- Introduction: History, Theory and Interpretation
- The Axial Age and its Interpreters: Reopening a Debate
- The Meaning of the Axial Age
- Palomar�s Questions. The Axial Age Hypothesis, European Modernity and Historical Contingency
- Between Tradition and Christianity: The Axial Age in the Perspective of Béla Hamvas
- PART TWO: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND ITS AXIAL PERIPHERIES
- Introduction: Archaic Backgrounds and Axial Breakthroughs
- Axial “Breakthroughs� and Semantic “Relocations� in Ancient Egypt and IsraelMesopotamian Vistas on Axial Transformations
- Zoroastrian Origins: Indian and Iranian Connections
- Axial Transformations within Ancient Israelite Priesthood
- The Jewish Historical Experience: Heterodox Tendencies and Political Dynamics in a De-territorialized Axial Civilization
- Polis, “the Political�, and Political Thought: New Departures in Ancient Greece, c. 800-500 BCE
- PART THREE: LATE ANTIQUITY AND BEYOND
- Introduction: Late Antiquity as a Sequel and Counterpoint to the Axial AgeCultural Memory in Early Christianity: Clement of Alexandria and the History of Religions
- “The Religion of Light�: On Mani and Manichaeism
- Arabia and The Heritage of the Axial Age
- PART FOUR: INDIAN AND CHINESE PERSPECTIVES
- Introduction: Extending the Axial Model to South and East Asia
- Axial Grammar
- Axialism and Empire
- Rethinking the Axial Age�The Case of Chinese Culture
- The Axial Millennium in China: A Brief Survey
- The Ming-Qing Transition: Seventeenth-Century Crisis or Axial Breakthrough?PART FIVE: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
- Axial Civilizations and the Axial Age Reconsidered
- List of contributors
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
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