The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Tradition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #006850
Quarter cream cloth, cream paper boards. xviii, 469 pp. Fine in fine jacket. In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Later generations further developed these intial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Now, in The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong reveals how the sages of this pivotal "Axial Age" can speak clearly and helpfully to the violence and desperation we experience in our own times.
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