Axial Age

English Etymology en de Achsenzeit. Proper noun Axial Age en history The age from about the 8th to the 3rd century , during which broad changes in religious and philosophical thought occurred in a variety of locations. en Axis Age en 1986 9781438401942 Hermann Kulke The Historical Background of India's Axial Age Shmuel N. Eisenstadt The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations State University of New York Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WsUKbgh_A1YC&pg=PA392&dq=%22Axial+Age%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia5eT_zd_8AhX5TGwGHbo6DcYQ6AF6BAhmEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Axial%20Age%22&f=false 392 This rather speculative explanation of a most important characteristic feature of Axial Age civilizations might be questioned. But it remains a fact that these tensions and the social Freiraum existed in all these societies. en 9789004151246 Mark J. Boda; Daniel K. Falk; Rodney Alan Werline 1991 Seeking the Favor of God: The origins of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism Early Judaism and Its Literature BRILL https://books.google.com.au/books?id=AaMQAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Axial+Age%22&dq=%22Axial+Age%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia5eT_zd_8AhX5TGwGHbo6DcYQ6AF6BAgaEAI 102 According to the philosopher Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age encompassed 800-200 B.C.E., with a center at approximately 500.25 Jaspers used the epithet "Axial" because this epoch heralded fundamental and revolutionary changes in human social, religious, and intellectual history. en 2018 Stephen K. Sanderson Religious Evolution and the Axial Age 9781350047440 Bloomsbury Publishing (Bloomsbury Academic) https://books.google.com.au/books?id=W3tADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA203&dq=%22Axial+Age%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia5eT_zd_8AhX5TGwGHbo6DcYQ6AF6BAheEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Axial%20Age%22&f=false 203 What then of the theory's relevance to the Axial Age? Because Norenzayan is interested in pre-Axial Age gods as well as those of the Axial Age, this makes the theory of limited use in explaining the kinds of gods that arose during the Axial Age. Translations age during which broad changes occurred in religious and philosophical thought French: fr période axiale f, fr ère axiale f German: de Achsenzeit f Italian: it periodo assiale m en Age