false 30285230 413696 53982 0385721242 9780385721240 75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435181m/53982.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435181s/53982.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53982.The_Great_Transformation_The_Beginning_of_Our_Religious_Traditions 3.87 295 A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought.

In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have endured to the present day--the development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Armstrong, one of our most prominent religious scholars, examines how these traditions began in response to the violence of their time. Studying figures as diverse as the Buddha and Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah, Armstrong reveals how these still enduring philosophies can help address our contemporary problems.]]> 2637 3.84 7487 1338 2006 0 0 false Mon Nov 23 06:47:53 -0800 2009 Fri Aug 15 22:02:35 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 23 06:47:55 -0800 2009