Order and transcendence : the role of utopias and the dynamics of civilizations
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Order and transcendence : the role of utopias and the dynamics of civilizations
(International studies in sociology and social anthropology, v. 50)
E.J. Brill, 1989
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Papers from a seminar on utopias in axial age civilizations, conducted in 1985/86 and 1986/87 within the frame of the program on Comparative Civilizations at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and the Truman Research Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Includes index
Contents of Works
- The comparative study of utopias / Adam Seligman
- Christian utopias and Christian salvation / Adam Seligman
- The Eucharist sacrifice and the changing utopian moment in post Reformation Christianity / Adam Seligman
- De-axialization/Re-axialization: the case of Brazilian millennialism / Bernardo Arévalo de Léon
- Jewish salvational visions, utopias, and attitudes towards the Halacha / Shlomo Fischer
- Hasidism / Schlomo Fischer
- Turning classic models into utopias / Sarit Helman
- Can a Hindu utopia be a Moslem utopia? Examples from 12th Century India and beyond / Harriet Hartman
- The Javanese conception of order and its relationship to millennarian motifs and imagery / Sarit Helman
- Utopias and dynamics of civilizations / S.N. Eisenstadt
Description and Table of Contents
Table of Contents
S.N. Eisenstadt, Foreword
Adam Seligman, The Comparative Study of Utopias
Adam Seligman, Christian Utopias and Christian Salvation: A General Introduction
Adam Seligman, The Eucharist Sacrifice and the Changing Utopian Moment in Post Reformation Christianity
Bernardo Arevalo de Leon, De-axialization/Re-axialization: The Case of Brazilian Millenialism
Shlomo Fischer, Jewish Salvational Visions, Utopias, and Attitudes towards the Halacha
Shlomo Fischer, Turning Classic Models into Utopias: The Neo Confucianist Critique
Sarit Helman, Turning Classic Models into Utopias: The Neo Confucianist Critique
Hariet Hartman, Can a Hindu Utopia be a Moslem Utopia? Examples from 12 century India and beyond
Sarit Helman, The Javanese Conception of Order and its Relationship to Millenarian Motifs and Imagery
S.N. Eisenstadt, Utopias and Dynamics of Civilizations: some concluding observations
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