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Robert N. Bellah
A comprehensive sociological and historical examination of religion's role in human evolution from prehistoric times through the Axial Age, exploring how religious meaning-making developed across tribal, archaic, and axial civilizations.
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What this book knows
Religion is not an add-on to human evolution but the medium through which societies have always constructed cosmos, self, and moral order.
faith-and-doubt
It is not creation that constitutes order, but sacrifice… between procreation and true being are rituals, making a human out of the human in potens only.
RHEP-RC-675Fire stands for life, wealth, procreation, and continuation of family… man and fire are said to be father and son, a unity that guarantees immortality.
RHEP-RC-672mind-and-cognition
A kind of standing back and looking beyond — a critical, reflective questioning of the actual and a new vision of what lies beyond.
RHEP-RC-643There were forms of mythospeculation that verged on axial insights but still remained archaic… late Vedic society was on the verge of urbanism.
RHEP-RC-679obedience-and-authority
Xunzi insists each rank of society has its own appropriate rituals, so that the ritual order reinforces the social hierarchy.
RHEP-RC-640The goal was for the ruler to contact personally as many divine powers as possible… ideologically the empires functioned as a celestial imperium.
RHEP-RC-645Illuminates
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