LEADER 03641nam 22006734a 450 001 9910807155103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-91542-0 010 $a9786610915422 010 $a90-474-0578-1 010 $a1-4294-0819-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000405560 035 $a(EBL)3003982 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000108239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140256 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10036835 035 $a(PQKB)10961976 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003982 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3003982 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10175386 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL91542 035 $a(OCoLC)923612340 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000405560 100 $a20040806d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAxial civilizations and world history /$fedited by Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt, and Bjorn Wittrock 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 573 pages) 225 1 $aJerusalem studies in religion and culture,$x1570-078X ;$vv. 4 311 0 $a90-04-13955-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Axial Breakthroughs and Semantic Relocations in Ancient Egypt and Israel"" ""Mesopotamian Vistas on Axial Transformations""; ""Zoroastrian Origins: Indian and Iranian Connections""; ""Axial Transformations within Ancient Israelite Priesthood""; ""The Jewish Historical Experience: Heterodox Tendencies and Political Dynamics in a De-territorialized Axial Civilization""; ""Polis, the Political, and Political Thought: New Departures in Ancient Greece, c. 800-500 BCE""; ""PART THREE: LATE ANTIQUITY AND BEYOND"" 327 $a""Introduction: Late Antiquity as a Sequel and Counterpoint to the Axial Age"" ""Cultural Memory in Early Christianity: Clement of Alexandria and the History of Religions""; ""The Religion of Light: On Mani and Manichaeism""; ""Arabia and The Heritage of the Axial Age""; ""PART FOUR: INDIAN AND CHINESE PERSPECTIVES""; ""Introduction: Extending the Axial Model to South and East Asia""; ""Axial Grammar""; ""Axialism and Empire""; ""Rethinking the Axial Age: The Case of Chinese Culture""; ""The Axial Millennium in China: A Brief Survey"" 327 $a""The Ming-Qing Transition: Seventeenth-Century Crisis or Axial Breakthrough?"" ""PART FIVE: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS""; ""Axial Civilizations and the Axial Age Reconsidered""; ""List of contributors""; ""INDEX"" 330 $aA collection of essays by social theorists, historical sociologists and area specialists in classical, biblical and Asian studies. The contributions deal with cultural transformations in major civilizational centres during the "Axial Age", the middle centuries of the last millennium BCE, and their long-term consequences. 410 0$aJerusalem studies in religion and culture ;$vv. 4. 606 $aCivilization, Ancient$vCongresses 606 $aSocial change$vCongresses 606 $aHistorical sociology$vCongresses 615 0$aCivilization, Ancient 615 0$aSocial change 615 0$aHistorical sociology 676 $a930.1/6 701 $aArnason$b Johann Pall$f1940-$00 701 $aEisenstadt$b S. N$g(Shmuel Noah),$f1923-$01752820 701 $aWittrock$b Bjorn$0382146 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807155103321 996 $aAxial civilizations and world history$94190181 997 $aUNINA