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The “Axial Age”: Problematising Religious History in a Post-Colonial Setting
The “Axial Age”: Problematising Religious History in a Post-Colonial Setting
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
May 30, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In the latest #RSPpod from our friends in Australia, Dr Jack Tsonis gets fired up about the "Axial Age" as well as the difficulties the immediate post-PhD years. Karl Jaspers created the term “Axial Age” in 1949 after considering that the Bhagavad Gita, the Pali Canon, the Book of Isaiah,...
Released:
May 30, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Indian Rationalism, and a Relational Approach to Nonreligion: It is unfortunate fact that in popular ‘Western’ imagination, the land of India is frequently orientalised, and naively conceptualized as ‘the quintessential land of religion, spirituality, and miracles.’ Although we would certainly not want to complet... by The Religious Studies Project