scholarly journals Religionshistorie og aksetid

2011 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Hominid Evolution ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Robert Bellah ◽  
Religious Evolution

Artiklen præsenterer og diskuterer to artikler af den amerikanske religionssociolog Robert Bellah, “Religious evolution” fra 1964 og “What is Axial about the Axial Age?” (2005). I forhold til en generel mangel på interesse for en religionens historie (forskellig fra religionernes historie) blandt religionsvidenskabelige forskere anbefales Bellahs model som et frugtbart udgangspunkt for en revitalisering af en hæderværdig del af religionsvidenskaben, særlig når den kombineres med aktuelle diskussioner af ‘aksetiden’ og Merlin Donalds biokulturelle, kognitive model for hominid evolution.

Religionshistorie og aksetid

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Hominid Evolution ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Robert Bellah ◽  
Religious Evolution

English summary: The article presents and discusses two articles by Robert Bellah, “Religious evolution” from 1964 and “What is Axial about the Axial Age?” (2005). In what seems to be a general lack of interest in a history of religion (different from a history of religions) among academic scholars in the science of religion, Bellahs model, especially in its combination with recent approaches to the ‘axial age’ and to Merlin Donald’s biocultural cognitive model for hominid evolution, is recommended as a useful starting point for revitalization of an honorable branch of religious studies.  Dansk resume: Artiklen præsenterer og diskuterer to artikler af den amerikanske religionssociolog Robert Bellah, “Religious evolution” fra 1964 og “What is Axial about the Axial Age?” (2005). I forhold til en generel mangel på interesse for en religionens historie (forskellig fra religionernes historie) blandt religionsvidenskabelige forskere anbefales Bellahs model som et frugtbart udgangspunkt for en revitalisering af en hæderværdig del af religionsvidenskaben, særlig når den kombineres med aktuelle diskussioner af ‘aksetiden’ og Merlin Donalds biokulturelle, kognitive model for hominid evolution.

Religion and Politics: Nationalism, Globalisation and Empire

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Turner
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Global System ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Robert Bellah ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Religious Evolution ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe relationship between religion and politics can be examined under three rather different historical circumstances: nation-states, the global system, and empire. Although these three socio-political contexts may overlap in time and space, they are examined here in their specific historical settings. These three contexts are explored in a broadly historical or evolutionary framework, and my conceptual model is explicitly based on the famous essay by Robert Bellah (1964) on 'religious evolution', which traced the development of religion towards its individualistic, pluralistic and denominational features in a secular age. The point of this framework is heuristic, namely to help us to think more clearly about the contemporary period.

scholarly journals Robert Bellah, religion og menneskelig evolution

2013 ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Early States ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Robert Bellah ◽  
Academic Study

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction to and discussion of Robert Bellah's major book, Religion in Human Evolution (2011). which defines and describes tribal religion (religion in pre-state societies), archaic religion (religion in early states) and religious currents in the axial age, the period in the middle of 1st mill. BC, where new radical and intellectual ideas and practices, sceptial or world renouncing, appeared in China, India and Greece. Hopefully, Bellah's book will be a standard reference work in the academic study of religion and an inspiration for the history of religion in the future to engage in historical and comparative studies.DANSK RESUMÉ: Introduktion til og diskussion af Robert Bellahs hovedværk fra 2011, Religion in Human Evolution, der definerer og beskriver tribal religion, dvs. religion i før-statslige samfund, arkaisk religion, dvs. religion i tidlig-statslige kulturer samt religiøse strømninger i aksetiden, perioden i midten af 1. årt. f.Kr., hvor nye radikale og intellektuelle, skeptiske eller verdensafvisende, tankegange og livsformer formuleres i Kina, Indien og Grækenland. Bogen bør betragtes som et hovedværk i aktuel religionsforskning, og den vil forhåbentlig kunne inspirere religionshistorien til også at drive historisk-komparativ forskning.

scholarly journals Aksetid, det aksiale, aksialisering. Om Robert Bellah & Hans Joas, eds., The Axial Ages and Its Consequences

2013 ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Robert Bellah

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The collective work The Axial Age and Its Consequences contains contributions by Charles Taylor, Merlin Donald, Shmuel N. Eisenstad, Jan Assmann and others to important discussions before, around and after Robert Bellah's Religion and Human Evolution. The article presents and discusses the indi-vidual contributions.DANSK RESUMÉ: I samleværket The Axial Age and Its Consequences er samlet bidrag af Charles Taylor, Merlin Donald, Shmuel N. Eisenstad, Jan Assmann og flere andre til vigtige debatter forud for, parallelt med og opfølgende på Robert Bellahs Religion and Human Evolution. Artiklen præseterer og diskuterer værkets bidrag.

scholarly journals Religionshistoriske og typologiske overvejelser over fænomenet askese

2016 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
History Of ◽  
Robert Bellah ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Traditional Scholarship ◽  
Pierre Hadot ◽  
The One

In the current article I raise the question of asceticism as a ubiquitous and multifarious phenomenon in human culture. Contrary to much traditional scholarship on asceticism within the history of religion that has focused almost exclusively on the phenomenon as confined to a Judaeo-Christian and Indian context, I point to the importance of bringing the later phenomena into dialogue with previous examples in tribal and archaic types of religion. In anthropology there has from an early period been a strong acknowledgement of the pervasiveness of ascetic practices not least in conjunction with ritual. Yet, this appreciation has never really been taken into consideration by scholars working on subsequent forms of asceticism. By means of genealogically typological reflections, I aim to develop a full scale understanding that will enable us to take the entire gamut of ascetic practices and phenomena into consideration. My ruminations rest on a biocultural evolutionary approach that allows me, on the one hand, to account for the pluriform nature of the phenomenon under scrutiny and, on the other hand, to place emphasis on the uniting features. From this perspective, two points of transition come to the fore of discussion. The first crucial transformation pertaining to asceticism took place at the time of the emergence of axial age thinking and practice at which period asceticism changed from being ritually to be ideologically determined. The second decisive change occurred at the transition from post-axial age types of religion to modernity when the element of privation disappeared. I develop my understanding of the specific nature of asceticism pertinent to the singular stages in the history of asceticism in the wake of thinkers such as Robert Bellah, Peter Sloterdijk and Pierre Hadot.

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