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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Fundamental Questions
1. The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse
2. What Was the Axial Revolution?
3. An Evolutionary Approach to Culture: Implications for the Study of the Axial Age
4. Embodiment, Transcendence, and Contingency: Anthropological Features of the Axial Age
5. The Axial Age in Global History: Cultural Crystallizations and Societal Transformations
6. The Buddha’s Meditative Trance: Visionary Knowledge, Aphoristic Thinking, and Axial Age Rationality in Early Buddhism
7. The Idea of Transcendence
A Comparative Perspective
8. Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah’s Theory of Religious Evolution
9. Where Do Axial Commitments Reside? Problems in Thinking about the African Case
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
Destructive Possibilities?
11. The Axial Conundrum between Transcendental Visions and Vicissitudes of Their Institutionalizations: Constructive and Destructive Possibilities
12. Axial Religions and the Problem of Violence
13. Righteous Rebels: When, Where, and Why?
Reevaluations
14. Rehistoricizing the Axial Age
15. Cultural Memory and the Myth of the Axial Age
Perspectives on the Future
16. The Axial Invention of Education and Today’s Global Knowledge Culture
17. The Future of Transcendence: A Sociological Agenda
18. The Heritage of the Axial Age: Resource or Burden?
Bibliography: Works on the Axial Age
Contributors
Index
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