From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond Frances Boyle

From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond Frances BoyleEssays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations. The postWorld War II idea of the Axial Age by Karl Jaspers, and as elaborated into the sociology of axial civilizations by S. N. Eisenstadt in the later twentieth and early twenty first centuries, continues to be the subject of intense scholarly debate. Examples of this can be found in recent works of Hans Joas and Jrgen Habermas. In From World Religions to Axial

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