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- Introduction [Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas]
- Fundamental Questions
- 1. The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse [Hans Joas]
- 2. What Was the Axial Revolution? [Charles Taylor]
- 3. An Evolutionary Approach to Culture: Implications for the Study of the Axial Age [Merlin Donald]
- 4. Embodiment, Transcendence, and Contingency: Anthropological Features of the Axial Age [Matthias Jung]
- 5. The Axial Age in Global History: Cultural Crystallizations and Societal Transformations [Björn Wittrock]
- 6. The Buddha’s Meditative Trance: Visionary Knowledge, Aphoristic Thinking, and Axial Age Rationality in Early Buddhism [Gananath Obeyesekere]
- 7. The Idea of Transcendence [Ingolf U. Dalferth]
- A Comparative Perspective
- 8. Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah’s Theory of Religious Evolution [José Casanova]
- 9. Where Do Axial Commitments Reside? Problems in Thinking about the African Case [Ann Swidler]
- 10. 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?
- 11. The Axial Conundrum between Transcendental Visions and Vicissitudes of Their Institutionalizations: Constructive and Destructive Possibilities [Shmuel N. Eisenstadt]
- 12. Axial Religions and the Problem of Violence [David Martin]
- 13. Righteous Rebels: When, Where, and Why? [W.G. Runciman]
- Reevaluations
- 14. Rehistoricizing the Axial Age [Johann P. Arnason]
- 15. Cultural Memory and the Myth of the Axial Age [Jan Assmann]
- Perspectives on the Future
- 16. The Axial Invention of Education and Today’s Global Knowledge Culture [William M. Sullivan]
- 17. The Future of Transcendence: A Sociological Agenda [Richard Madsen]
- 18. The Heritage of the Axial Age: Resource or Burden? [Robert N. Bellah]
- Bibliography: Works on the Axial Age
- Contributors
- Index
The Axial Age and Its Consequences
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Awards & Accolades
- Robert Bellah Is a 2000 National Humanities Medal Winner
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