The Axial Age

http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/15/big-histories-universal-histories/

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Dawkins’ bogus religion theory
The Dawkins style explanation is totally false, and deserves to be resisted by all parties, including religionists. We can see from the Axial Age that emergent religion is connected to emergent civilization, and that the two blend together, as they must have in the earliest stages of human evolution.

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Booknotes: review of The Rape Of Troy
This book on Greek culture fails to sense the significance of the Axial Age in Greek history

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Always one of the msot popular posts at Darwiniana: http://darwiniana.com/2005/11/20/karen-armstrong-on-axial-age/

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http://darwiniana.com/2010/03/29/reconciling-evolution-and-religion-doing-it-right/

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Darwinism’s failure to explain religion

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Armstrong and Darwin dogma
Armstrong’s Darwinism next to here confusion over the Axial Age is unfortunate for her theological discussion in her new book.

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An Axial Age Of Liberalism

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The issue of Buddhism is a confusing one. But one thing to consider is that it came into existence in the wake of the Axial Age, and then straddled an entire age until the modern, at which point its impetus began to fail. We see the desperation in the attempts to cast its ’seeds’ in [...]

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Wikipedia on Axial Age
The misperception of the Axial Age on Wikipedia is indicative of the inability to see the phenomenon: it is something far larger than the sages and prophets it appears to exhibit.

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