Axial Age Heritage in Religious Philosophy and Culture of the Bengal Renaissance

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10.2991/cesses-18.2018.190How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Bengal Renaissance; Axial Age; ‘second Axis’ in India; interaction of Axial peoples and cultures; East–West dialogue; religious humanism; cultural shifts

Abstract

Jaspers’ interpretation of a renaissance as recollections and reawakening of the potentialities of the Axial Age is useful methodological approach to the study of cultural ascent epochs in religious, philosophical and social spheres. In British India the Bengal Renaissance XIX – early XX centuries can be described as the creation of ‘second Axis’ for India – in religious thought and culture. The author proves that the Bengal Renaissance is the result of interaction of two Axial peoples and cultures – Indian and European. The non-trivial synthesis of ideas and values originated from Indian Axis with influences of Christianity and European ‘second Axis’ culture has generated Bengal religious humanism – the core and the essence of the epoch. Bengal humanism became an intellectual revolution, which had been spread in all spheres of culture and had stimulates social modernization of India.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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