Order and transcendence : the role of utopias and the dynamics of civilizations /
Seligman, A.
Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim.Maḥlakah le-sotsyologyah ṿe-antropologyah ḥevratit.
Makhon le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Heri S. Ṭruman.
Leiden : E.J. Brill,
1988.
Papers from a seminar on utopias in axial age civilizations, conducted in 1985/86 and 1986/87 within the framework of the program on Comparative Civilizations at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and the Truman Research Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Includes index.
The comparative study of utopias / Adam Seligman -- Christian utopias and Christian salvation / Adam Seligman -- The Eucharist sacrifice and the changing utopian moment in Post Reformation Christianity / Adam Seligman -- De-axialization/Re-axialization: the case of Brazilian millenialism / Bernardo Arévalo de Léon -- Jewish salvational visions, utopias, and attitudes towards the Halacha / Shlomo Fischer -- Hasidism / Schlomo Fischer -- Turning classic models into utopias / Sarit Helman -- Can a Hindu utopia be a Moslem utopia? Examples from 12th Century India and beyond / Harriet Hartman -- The Javanese conception of order and its relationship to millenarian motifs and imagery / Sarit Helman -- Utopias and dynamics of civilizations / S.N. Eisenstadt.
Utopias
Civilization