This major work offers a historical description and systematic
analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which
the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization.
Secondly, they assume (and prove) that the religions of the Axial
Age were shaped by the suffering of people, deepened by the
emergence of a new economy - based on money, private property and
interest. They assume that the proven convergence of the Axial Age
religions in responding to the social, psychological (and already
ecological) consequences of the new economy can inform, motivate
and empower faith communities and their members to join hands with
social movements towards a new personal and collective culture of
life. In part I they show the linkage between the contexts of
antiquity and modernity concerning the role of money, private
property and the related structures and mentalities of greed,
producing suffering, and psychological, social and ecological
destruction. They show how the religions of the Axial Age responded
to this context in similar ways but with interesting specific
emphases. In relation to today's situation we also raise the
question of psychological hindrances to change in the different
social classes, affected by neoliberalism, and how to overcome
them. Before drawing the conclusions for present-day
alliance-building between faith communities and social movements
for alternatives to neoliberal globalization in Part III they offer
a fundamental critique of the ambivalence of modernity in Part
II.
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