| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
SUNY series, Pangaea II: global/local studies
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SUNY series, Pangaea II.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
World Religions, Civilizations and the Axial Age / Björn Wittrock -- Ideas and Interests: From Weber's Protestant Ethic to the Later Writings on the Sociology of Religion / Stephen Kalberg -- Karl Jaspers on Paradigmatic Individuals: A Complement to His Concept of the Axial Age and a Subtype of Weber's Concept of Charisma / Victor Lidz -- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Some Forerunners and Followers of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis in France and Brazil / Roberto Motta -- Images of Natural Order and Rulership by Measure, Weight and Number in the Hellenistic-Roman Era: A Study of Inter-Civilizational Encounters / Donald A. Nielsen -- The Pioneers of Islamicate Civilizational Analysis / Saïd Amïr Arjomand -- More (or Less) than a Civilizational "Formation"? Islam as the "Black Hole" of Comparative Civilizational Analysis / Armando Salvatore -- The Reception of Axial Age Legacies: Christianization and the Byzantinization of Russia / Yulia Prozorova -- The Forgotten Earth: Nature, World Religions, and Worldlessness in the Legacy of the Axial Age/Moral Revolution / Eugene Halton. |
| Summary |
"Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religion and civilization.
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Religion and civilization. |
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Civilization -- Philosophy.
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Civilization -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Arjomand, Said Amir, editor.
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Kalberg, Stephen, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: From world religions to axial civilizations and beyond. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] 9781438483399 (DLC) 2020050107 |
| ISBN |
9781438483412 (electronic book) |
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1438483414 (electronic book) |
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9781438483399 (hardcover) |
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