Axial Age Theorising and the Comparative Study of Religion and Literature
Karl Jaspers’ theory of the axial age has attracted renewed interest in recent years and constitutes a rich, potentially fruitful ground for exploration by theologians and scholars of religion and literature interested in ‘scriptural reasoning’. Yet rather than to construe our times as a second axia...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-150 |
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| Summary: | Karl Jaspers’ theory of the axial age has attracted renewed interest in recent years and constitutes a rich, potentially fruitful ground for exploration by theologians and scholars of religion and literature interested in ‘scriptural reasoning’. Yet rather than to construe our times as a second axial age, as some do, it may be more appropriate to think of ours as an ‘age of comparison’. This article considers the dual histories of comparative literature and comparative religion leading up to the current theoretical impasse where comparativism is questioned, yet essential for the advancement of religion and literature as an area of study. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fru032 |