axial age conference in erfurt

An amazing conference is happening among some of the leading social theorists globally gathering to both consider and, I think, assist Robert Bellah in his work on religious evolution and the key concept of the axial age. Something to watch, for sure, as it has profound implications on our understand of the present (just see Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, for example, to see that).

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[Peter Boumgarden]

Love the blog

Would love to hear how Taylor's book has changed your own conscious understanding of your religious beliefs (rather than an understanding of our societies approach to religion in general). In reading Taylor's book, I have found his book to be profoundly shaping of my own understanding and approach to my religion/ spirituality, but I am still not quite capable yet in the articulation of the shape or direction of that shift. For me, this is the difference between knowing that something happened, and knowing exactly what it was that took place!

peter