The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

ISBN: 0375413170

Author: Armstrong, Karen

Condition: New

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 initial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, for example, were all secondary flowerings of the original Israelite vision. Now, in The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong reveals how the sages of this pivotal

• Stated First Edition, First Printing 2006. A Borzoi Book, Published by Alfred A. Knopf.