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World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations

World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Challenging the approach of G. P. Murdock, which has become the dominant paradigm, Korotayev (anthropology of the East, Russian State U. for the Humanities, Moscow) argues for the powerful effects of world religious communities dating from the Axial Age (600-400 B.C.) on the preservation and differentiation of distinctive social and political struc

Book information

ISBN: 9780773463103
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.6
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 246
Weight: 589g
Height: 234mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 25mm