Axial civilizations and world history / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt, and Bjorn Wittrock

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 573 pages)
• Disciplina: 930.1/6
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Ancient; Social change; Historical sociology
• Altri autori: ArnasonJohann Pall <1940-> EisenstadtS. N <1923-> (Shmuel Noah) WittrockBjorn
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: A 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Axial civilizations and world history
• ISBN: 1-280-91542-0; 9786610915422; 90-474-0578-1; 1-4294-0819-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807155103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; ; v. 4.