Great Transformation The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

Name: Great Transformation The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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ISBN: 9780385721240

ISBN-10: 0385721242

ISBN-13: 9780385721240

Edition: Annotated

Authors: Karen Armstrong

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From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author ofA History of GodandThe Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious 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 of their time. Studying figures as diverse as the Buddha and Socrates, Confucius and…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.94" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Karen Armstrong is one of the foremost commentators on religious affairs in both Britain and the United States. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun and received a degree at Oxford University.