Sociological Echoes of the Greek Axiality. Robert Bellah’s Rereading of an Endless Legacy

Abstract

This paper deals with the relevance of Greece in the construction of sociology. Until now the idea of Greece was strong influenced by the concept of secularization. Due to this concept, Greece was the starting point of a long and single historical process of rationalization that finished with the death of the religion and myth in the modern society. The recent contributions of R.Bellah change this image. His research starts with the Axial Age in that Greece is the place, not the cause, where appairs the theoretical reason. Now in the culture the past of mankind doesn´t disappear. The first steps of culture remain. Therefore, myth and theory are considered skills and tools with them the modern man organize the experience.