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Barcode	D03590
Title	Convenient myths : The Axial age, dark green religion, and the world that never was [electronic resource]
Author	Provan, Iain.
Call No	DTL 201.693 PRO
Collection	Ebook
Copy No	1

International Standard Book Number	9781602589933
Dewey Decimal Classification Number	DTL 201.693 PRO
Personal Name	Provan, Iain.
Title Statement	Convenient myths : The Axial age, dark green religion, and the world that never was [electronic resource]
Imprint	Waco, Texas : Baylor Press, 2013.
Physical Description	eBook
General Note	Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Summary, Etc.	Karl Jaspers' construct of the "axial age" envisions the common past (800-200 BC), the time when Western society was born and world religions spontaneously and independently appeared out of a seemingly shared value set. Conversely, the myth of the "dark green golden age" as narrated by David Suzuki and others asserts that the axial age, and the otherworldliness that accompanied the emergence of organized religion, ripped society from a previously deep communion with nature. Provan illuminates the influence of these two deeply entrenched and questionable myths, warns of their potential dangers, and forebodingly maps the implications of a world founded on such myths.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	CIVILIZATION - ANCIENT.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	MYTH - HISTORY.
Electronic Location and Access	http://thedtl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/859155818 DTL ePlatform Full text - Book opens through link in DTL DTL