week 6 axial age religions
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Week 6 Axial Age Religions Axial Age Ancient Israel Ancient
Greece Zoroastrian Persia
Imperial China Hindu India Axial Age Offshoots Christianity
Manichaeism
Buddhism, Jainism & Sikhism Islam Sometimes referred to
as
Revealed religions Monotheistic religions Textual religions But
misnomers. Pre Axial Age Gods and humans distinct but similar
Divine and human world similar; close Morality: obligation to ones
group Religion=ethnic religion Or, state religion Leader is
descendant of gods. Afterlife not clearly defined Axial Age
Intellectual elites Moral & Political order separate.
Pre-axial age culture become peripheral General intolerance
official orthodoxy. Transcendental vision
There is a world history Curiosity about other people Morality
general; applicable to all Possible to missionize. Tension How to
bridge gap between mundane and divine realms?
Concept of salvation Escatology. Zoroastrianism Probably among
oldest living religions Today
11,000 Zoroastrians in Iran 200,000 Parsees Religion of Persian
Empire
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