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The first classics in human history--the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages--appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. The canonical texts of the Hebrew scriptures, the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle, t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Conference "Axial Age and Its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present"
Otros Autores: Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013, Joas, Hans, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Civilization, Ancient > Congresses.
Comparative civilization > Congresses.
Philosophy, Comparative > Congresses.
Religions > Congresses.
Civilisation ancienne > Congrès.
Civilisation comparée > Congrès.
Philosophie comparée > Congrès.
Religions > Congrès.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Civilization, Ancient
Comparative civilization
Philosophy, Comparative
Religions
Geschiedfilosofie.
Culturen.
Godsdiensten.
Oorsprong.
Multi-User.
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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