The Axial Age and Its Consequences /

The Axial Age and Its Consequences / / Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas.

Show other versions (1)

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, the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
VerfasserIn:
Bellah, Robert N.,
Joas, Hans,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (500 p.) :; 4 tables
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse
  • 2 What Was the Axial Revolution?
  • 3 An Evolutionary Approach to Culture
  • 4 Embodiment, Transcendence, and Contingency
  • 5 The Axial Age in Global History
  • 6 The Buddha's Meditative Trance
  • 7 The Idea of Transcendence
  • 8 Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah's Th eory of Religious Evolution
  • 9 Where Do Axial Commitments Reside?
  • 10 The Axial Age Theory
  • 11 The Axial Conundrum between Transcendental Visions and Vicissitudes of Th eir Institutionalizations
  • 12 Axial Religions and the Problem of Violence
  • 13 Righ teous Rebels
  • 14 Rehistoricizing the Axial Age
  • 15 Cultural Memory and the Myth of the Axial Age
  • 16 The Axial Invention of Education and Today's Global Knowledge Culture
  • 17 The Future of Transcendence
  • 18 The Heritage of the Axial Age
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

Similar Items