The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Armstrong, Karen

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385721240)

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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Armstrong, Karen

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

$20.00
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Armstrong, Karen

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought--from the New York Times bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase

"A splendid book.... Lucid, highly readable.... Relevant to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds." --The New York Times

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--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 Jeremiah, Armstrong reveals how these still enduring philosophies can help address our contemporary problems.

Author: Karen Armstrong
ISBN-10: 0385721242
ISBN-13: 9780385721240
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2007
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.21w x 1.09d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/13/2007 pg. 32
Kliatt 07/01/2007 pg. 39
By Karen Armstrong
By Karen Armstrong
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KAREN ARMSTRONG is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and Fields of Bloos, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy's inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding.

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