Practicing Transcendence: Axial Age Spiritualities for a World in Crisis 9783030144326, 3030144321

This book introduces readers to the concept of the Axial Age and its relevance for a world in crisis. Scholars have beco

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Practicing Transcendence: Axial Age Spiritualities for a World in Crisis
9783030144326, 3030144321

This book introduces readers to the concept of the Axial Age and its relevance for a world in crisis. Scholars have beco

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We live in a media age where technologies become the sites and sources of our practices and beliefs, including those dee

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The first classics in human history--the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned t

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This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the fi

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The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a pe

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The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a pe

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Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world histor

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Even in the twenty-first century, some two-thirds of the world's peoples quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolit

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The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening. “In this brief but remarkably thorough book, Boshan puts into words w

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