Axial civilizations and world history / edited by Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt, and Björn Wittrock.
Contributor(s): Árnason, Jóhann Páll
| Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah) | Wittrock, Björn
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TextSeries: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture: v. 4.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2005Description: vii, 573 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004139559 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Civilization, Ancient -- Congresses | Social change -- Congresses | Historical sociology -- CongressesDDC classification: 930.1/6 LOC classification: CB311 | .A89 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: history, theory and interpretation / Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt and Björn Wittrock -- The axial age and its interpreters: reopening a debate / Johann P. Arnason -- The meaning of axial age / Björn Wittrock -- Palomar's questions. The axial age hypothesis, European modernity and historical contingency / Peter Wagner -- Between tradition and Christianity: the axial age in the perspective of Béla Hamvas / Arpad Szakolczai -- Introduction: archaic backgrounds and axial breakthroughs / Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt and Björn Wittrock -- Axial "breakthroughs" and semantic "relocations" in ancient Egypt and Israel / Jan Assmann -- Mesopotamian vistas on axial transformations / Piotr Michalowski -- Zoroastrian origins: Indian and Iranian connections / Shaul Shaked -- Axial transformations within ancient Israelite priesthood / Israel Knohl -- The Jewish historical experience: heterodox tendencies and political dynamics in a de-territorialized axial civilization / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Polis, "the political", and political thought: new departures in ancient Greece, c. 800-500 BCE / Kurt A. Raaflaub --
Introduction: late antiquity as a sequel and counterpoint to the axial age / Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt and Björn Wittrock -- Cultural memory in early Christianity: Clement of Alexandria and the history of religions / Guy G. Stroumsa -- "The religion of light": on Mani and Manichaeism / David J. Levy -- Arabia and the heritage of the axial age / Jan Retsö -- Introduction: extending the axial model to South and East Asia / Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt and Björn Wittrock -- Axial grammar / David Shulman -- Axialism and empire / Sheldon Pollock -- Rethinking the axial age--the case of Chinese culture / Hsu Cho-yun -- The axial millennium in China: a brief survey / Christoph Harbsmeier -- The Ming-Qing transition: seventeenth-century crisis or axial breakthrough? / Frederic Wakeman Jr. -- Axial civilizations and the axial age reconsidered / S. N. Eisenstadt.
Most contributions are from a conference in Florence, December 2001, organized by the European University Institue, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.