Axiality and the Critique of Power

STRATHERN A
Edited by:
Madsen, R, Sullivan, W, Swidler, A, Tipton, S

This chapter interrogates the
possible connections between axiality (or, more specifically, what I refer to as
“transcendentalism”) and the potential for kingship to become subject to disenchantment,
critique, relativization, and even some expression of the popular
will.

Keywords:
Religion and sociology