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  title info:
    title: Practicing Transcendence
    sub title: Axial Age Spiritualities for a World in Crisis
  name:
    name part: Peet, Christopher.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 354 p. 6 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book introduces readers to the concept of the Axial Age and its relevance for a world in crisis. Scholars have become increasingly interested in philosopher Karl Jaspers' thesis that a spiritual revolution in consciousness during the first millennium BCE decisively shaped world history. Axial ideas of transcendence develop into ideologies for world religions and civilizations, in turn coalescing into a Eurasian world-system that spreads globally to become the foundation of our contemporary world. Alongside ideas and ideologies, the Axial Age also taught spiritual practices critically resisting the new scale of civilizational power: in small counter-cultural communities on the margins of society, they turn our conscious focus inward to transform ourselves and overcome the destructive potentials within human nature. Axial spiritualities offer humanity a practical wisdom, a profound psychology, and deep hope: to transform despair into resilience, helping us face with courage the ecological and political challenges confronting us today.
  note: by Christopher Peet.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology and religion
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Psychology
  subject:
    topic: History of Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  classification: BF51
  classification: 201.615
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030144326
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14432-6
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    record creation date: 190605
    record change date: 20191025191837.0
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