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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

by KarenArmstrong (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this five-hundred-year span? And why do they have such similar ideas about humanity? In The Great Transformation , Karen Armstrong examines this phenomenal period and the connections between this disparate group of philosophers, mystics and theologians.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 496
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 09 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 1903809754
ISBN 13: 9781903809754

Media Reviews
'Karen Armstrong is a genius' A. N. Wilson 'Brilliantly lucid, splendidly readable' Sister Wendy Beckett on A History of God
Author Bio
Karen Armstrong is one of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs. Her bestselling books include Islam: A Short History; Buddha; A History of God; Through the Narrow Gate; The Spiral Staircase;The Great Transformation (Atlantic Books 2006) and The Bible: The Biography (Atlantic Books 2007).