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RELG331 Lecture & Reading Notes – 09.18.23 Disembedded Religion & Axial Age - Axial Age (Karl Jasper) o Pattern running through various sort of civilizations across the world in or around about the 8 th to 3 rd century BCE o man’s reaching out beyond himself by growing aware of himself within the whole of being - Disparate Philosophical and Religious movements o Rise of ethical monotheism in ancient near East; Judaism o Zoroastrianism in Persia o Confucius and Confucianism in china and Taoism associated with figures associated with axial figures - Element of urbanization & settlement o Religion in these early Urban Settlements tended to be locally focused (gods of the cities) making immediate environments meaningful symbolically, reproducing things from generation to generation, legitimizing political and social order in which people live Emergence of something radically different Overall essence of axial religion - Time and place sometimes included within the axial revolution, and sometimes not – kind of aborted monotheistic moment in Egypt (14 th century BCE) Transcendentalization (transcendentlalizing movement associated with the axial revolution)\ - Abstract religious orientation: going beyond the human world - Dynamic tensions between transcendent and mundane/immanent - Critical devaluation of the mundane human world (prophetic disposition) - Spiritual goals beyond and outside ordinary social life - Suspicion/rejection of material sacrality - More individualistic paths of spiritual or philosophical development, enlightment , etc. Other important features of Axial religions - Movements associated with prophetic figures looking to spread their messages far and wide (traveling prophets removed from ordinary society) - Religious specialists’ “virtuosi” – share spiritual insights above and beyond what’s normally expected from human beings, and above and beyond regular religious leaders - Asceticism: world denial – implies a discipline of denial and removal o Many ascetic traditions within south Asian religion that involves people removing and denying themselves to reach some sort of a higher spiritual state
Iconoclasm o Deliberate destruction within a culture of the cultures own religious images and other symbols or monuments; usually for religious or political movements ______________________________________________________________________________ Associated Reading Notes C. Taylor, “What was the Axial Revolution?” Ch. 2 - Axial religion was the coming to be of a new tension between the transcendental and mundane orders - Axial age : was an extraordinary period in the last millennium BCE when many forms of “higher” religion appeared seemingly independently in different civilizations (marked by founding figures: Confucius, Gautama, Socrates, and Hebrew prophets) - Taking a look at “archaic religion” (Robert Bellah) these forms of life profoundly embed the agent o Socially; religious life is inseparably linked with social life o The primary agency of important religious action (i.e., praying to), coming close to these powers (i.e.., getting healing) was the social group as a whole or some more specialized agency representing the group - With inequality and justice, lies the identity of the human being o There was an inability to disconnect from the social matrix that people found themselves in - Divinity’s benign (gentle and kindly) purposes are defined in terms of ordinary human flourishing - Axial religion initiates a break in all three dimensions of embeddedness: social order, cosmos, and human good - It is considered that the most fundamental novelty is the revisional stance toward the human good in axial religions - Axial religion opens new possibilities of disembedded religion : seeking a relation to the divine or the higher, which severely revises the going notions of flourishing - Axial spiritualities were prevented from producing their full disembedding effect because they were, hemmed in by the force of the majority religious life, which remained in the old mold - Axial revolutions = relating to a new, unitary, higher good
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