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Convenient Myths - The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was (Paperback)
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Convenient Myths - The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was (Paperback)
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The contemporary world has been shaped by two important and potent
myths. Karl Jaspers' construct of the "axial age" envisions the
common past (800-200 BC), the time when Western society was born
and world religions spontaneously and independently appeared out of
a seemingly shared value set. Conversely, the myth of the "dark
green golden age," as narrated by David Suzuki and others, asserts
that the axial age and the otherworldliness that accompanied the
emergence of organized religion ripped society from a previously
deep communion with nature. Both myths contend that to maintain
balance we must return to the idealized past. In Convenient Myths ,
Iain Provan illuminates the influence of these two deeply
entrenched and questionable myths, warns of their potential
dangers, and forebodingly maps the implications of a world founded
on such myths.
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