The great transformation : the world in the time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

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The great transformation : the world in the time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

Karen Armstrong

Atlantic Books, 2007, c2006

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First published: 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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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  • NCID
    BB06432279
  • ISBN
    • 9781843540564
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 469 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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