Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World That Never Was by Iain W. Provan

Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World That Never Was

Iain W. Provan

159 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The contemporary world has been shaped by two important and potent myths. Karl Jaspers' construct of the "axial age" envisions the common past (800-200 BC), the time when Western society was born and world religions spontaneously and independently...

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