IDEOLOGY - RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD

By Richard Effland, MCC Anthropology

The Axis Age is a period of time around 500 B.C. when many of the great thinkers of the world were alive and shaping many of the world's great religions and philosophies. This was a period in human cultural history when many of the great World Religions emerged. Some of these are briefly identified in the following. Also think about the linkage of ideology as a justification for political systems. The following is taken from the Legacy series. Here Michael Woods defines the Axis Age:

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