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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

Comparative sociologist of Axial Age transformations in religion, politics, and critique.

Why this matters

Eisenstadt frames the long emergence of transcendent standards against earthly power.

Focus in observatory

Works

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The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age

Eisenstadt, Shmuel N., ed. *The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations*. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986.

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