Commentary Traditions and the Evolution of Premodern Religious and Philosophical Systems: A Cross-Cultural Model (1997).
Parallels in the rise and fall of religious and philosophical traditions are highlighted when those traditions are studied cross-culturally. In literate old-world societies, those parallels included near simultaneities in the initial emergence of abstract theology and philosophy in the mid-first mil...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Civilizations Review no. 72; pp. 22 - 60 |
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| Sumario: | Parallels in the rise and fall of religious and philosophical traditions are highlighted when those traditions are studied cross-culturally. In literate old-world societies, those parallels included near simultaneities in the initial emergence of abstract theology and philosophy in the mid-first millennium BCE and striking similarities in the patterns of growth and decline in cosmological traditions from late-classical to early-modern times. This paper introduces a general model to explain these parallels, integrating crosscultural data with abstract representations of nonlinear dissipative systems. |
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