The Axial Age and Its Consequences

Zusammenfassung This 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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• Authors: Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas
• Assisted by: Robert N. Bellah (Editor), Hans Joas (Editor), Joas Hans (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2012
• EAN: 9780674066496
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06649-6
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Geography, RELIGION / General, Anthropology, History of Religion, Social groups: religious groups and communities