ENGLISH

Great Transformation

By Karen Armstrong

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2006
ISBN
9780307264701
Open Library ID
OL24271550M
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (2092960 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-03-07 16:50:00

Description

From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of "A History of God" and "The Spiral Staircase," comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution ofreligious thought.In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have endured to the present day--the development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Armstrong, one of our most prominent religious scholars, examines how these traditions began in response to the violence oftheir time. Studying figures as diverse as the Buddha and Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah, Armstrong reveals how these still enduring philosophies can help address our contemporaryproblems. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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