Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Great Transformation.(The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions )(Brief article)(Book review)

The Great Transformation

Karen Armstrong

Alfred A. Knopf

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In the 9th century BCE the peoples of four separate regions of the world created the basic religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to modern times: Confucianism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Today these four remain the foundations of all religious thinking, and are surveyed as such in THE …

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