Robert Bellah on the origins of religion. A Critical Review
This book, as hefty as it is ambitious, represents the opus maximum of the great American sociologist of religion Robert Bellah. The author establishes his quest, from the ‘big Bang’ to Karl Jaspers’ ‘axial age,’ in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E., upon Durkeimian and Weberian principles,...
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| Vydáno v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rhr, |
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Revue de l’histoire des religions
2013
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| Shrnutí: | This book, as hefty as it is ambitious, represents the opus maximum of the great American sociologist of religion Robert Bellah. The author establishes his quest, from the ‘big Bang’ to Karl Jaspers’ ‘axial age,’ in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E., upon Durkeimian and Weberian principles, and studies in turn the civilizations of Israel, of Greece, of India and of China. Doing this, he ignores Iran, and does not reach up to Christianity and Islam, which appeared later. The failure of the enterprise is at the level of its ambitions. It is an honorable one. |
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