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

Armstrong, Karen

 
9781903809754: The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

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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À propos de l'auteur

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).

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9781843540564: The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1843540568 ISBN 13 :  9781843540564
Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2007
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