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ix, 316 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references and index The historian's point of view -- The worship of nature -- Man-worship: the idolization of parochial communities -- Man-worship: the idolization of an oecumenical community -- Man-worship: the idolization of a self-sufficient philosopher -- The epiphany of the higher religions -- Encounters between higher religions and idolized oecumenical empires -- The diversion of higher religions from their spiritual mission to mundane tasks -- Encounters between higher religions and philosophies -- The idolization of religious institutions -- The ascendancy of the Modern Western civilization -- The world's rejection of the Early Modern Western Christianity -- The breakdown of the Western Christian way of life and the seventeenth-century Western reaction against the West's Christian heritage -- The seventeenth-century secularization of Western life -- The world's reception of a secularized late Modern Western civilization -- The re-erection of two Graeco-Roman idols -- The idolization of the invincible technician -- The religious outlook in a twentieth-century world -- The task of disengaging the essence from the non-essentials

Author

Toynbee, Arnold, 1889-1975

Publisher

London ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1956

Language

EN