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The Great Transformation - Karen Armstrong
The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
469 page softcover
This is a historical and comparative study of what scholars call the Axial Age a pivotal period roughly between 900 and 200 BCE when many of the worlds foundational religious and philosophical traditions emerged independently in different parts of the world. Armstrong explores how during this era major spiritual and philosophical movements appeared in places like China, India, the Middle East, and Greece giving rise to Confucianism and Daoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, monotheism in Israel, and Greek philosophical rationalism.
