The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions - Hardcover

Armstrong, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375413170 ISBN 13: 9780375413179

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006

Synopsis

The critically acclaimed, best-selling author of A History of God examines the origins and history of the religious traditions of the world during the ninth century B.C.E. Axial Age in four distinct regions of the world--Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Karen Armstrong:
"Karen Armstrong is a genius."
-A. N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life
"Armstrong is a lucid writer with a knack for synthesizing vast quantities of research."
-"The Globe and Mail"
"Armstrong's writing continues to offer a religious mirror and a cultural vision."
-Amazon.com
"Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to the fundamentals, without oversimplifying."
-"The Sunday Times"

"The Great Transformation can serve the needs of new readers interested in a popular work that synthesizes scholarship. . . . [U]seful to anyone seeking an integral sense of world religions."
--"The Globe and Mail"
Praise for Karen Armstrong:
"Karen Armstrong is a genius."
--A. N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life
"Armstrong is a lucid writer with a knack for synthesizing vast quantities of research."
--"The Globe and Mail"
"Armstrong's writing continues to offer a religious mirror and a cultural vision."
--Amazon.com
"Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to the fundamentals, without oversimplifying."
--"The Sunday Times"

"From the Hardcover edition."

" The Great Transformation can serve the needs of new readers interested in a popular work that synthesizes scholarship. . . . [U]seful to anyone seeking an integral sense of world religions."
-- "The Globe and Mail"
Praise for Karen Armstrong:
" Karen Armstrong is a genius."
-- A. N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life
" Armstrong is a lucid writer with a knack for synthesizing vast quantities of research."
-- "The Globe and Mail"
" Armstrong's writing continues to offer a religious mirror and a cultural vision."
-- Amazon.com
" Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to the fundamentals, without oversimplifying."
-- "The Sunday Times"

"From the Hardcover edition."

" A splendid book. . . . Lucid, highly readable. . . . Relevan[t] to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds."
-- "The New York Times"
" Masterful. . . . Stimulating. . . . A tour de force."
-- "The Christian Science Monitor"
" "The Great Transformation" is Armstrong at her best- translating and distilling complex history into lucid prose. . . . Her call to rededicate our religious selves to compassion, other-directed love and service is downright rousing."
-- "The Washington Post"
" Remarkable and persuasive." -- "The Independent"
" Perhaps her most ambitious work to date. . . . Thoroughly researched and readable." -- "The San Francisco Chronicle"

"A splendid book. . . . Lucid, highly readable. . . . Relevan[t] to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds." --"The New York Times""Masterful. . . . Stimulating. . . . A tour de force." --"The Christian Science Monitor"""The Great Transformation" is Armstrong at her best-translating and distilling complex history into lucid prose. . . . Her call to rededicate our religious selves to compassion, other-directed love and service is downright rousing." --"The Washington Post""Remarkable and persuasive." --"The Independent""Perhaps her most ambitious work to date. . . . Thoroughly researched and readable." --"The San Francisco Chronicle"

A splendid book. . . . Lucid, highly readable. . . . Relevan[t] to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds. The New York Times Masterful. . . . Stimulating. . . . A tour de force. The Christian Science Monitor The Great Transformation is Armstrong at her best translating and distilling complex history into lucid prose. . . . Her call to rededicate our religious selves to compassion, other-directed love and service is downright rousing. The Washington Post Remarkable and persuasive. The Independent Perhaps her most ambitious work to date. . . . Thoroughly researched and readable. The San Francisco Chronicle"

A splendid book. . . . Lucid, highly readable. . . . Relevan[t] to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds. The New York Times
Masterful. . . . Stimulating. . . . A tour de force. The Christian Science Monitor
The Great Transformation is Armstrong at her best translating and distilling complex history into lucid prose. . . . Her call to rededicate our religious selves to compassion, other-directed love and service is downright rousing. The Washington Post

Remarkable and persuasive. The Independent
Perhaps her most ambitious work to date. . . . Thoroughly researched and readable. The San Francisco Chronicle

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"A splendid book. . . . Lucid, highly readable. . . . Relevan[t] to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds." --The New York Times

"Masterful. . . . Stimulating. . . . A tour de force."--The Christian Science Monitor

"The Great Transformation is Armstrong at her best--translating and distilling complex history into lucid prose. . . . Her call to rededicate our religious selves to compassion, other-directed love and service is downright rousing." --The Washington Post

"Remarkable and persuasive." --The Independent

"Perhaps her most ambitious work to date. . . . Thoroughly researched and readable." --The San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious affairs, including A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, and Buddha. Her work has been translated into forty languages, and she is the author of three television documentaries. Since September 11, 2001, she has been a frequent contributor to conferences, panels, newspapers, periodicals, and other media on both sides of the Atlantic on the subject of Islam. She lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0375413170
• ISBN 13: 9780375413179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464