StarAstrologer - Books : The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9780385721240
ISBN: 0385721242
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Sales Rank: 17743
Studio: Anchor
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From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of 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.
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"The position men have given to Jesus is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts. Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. It always believes in itself." Emerson, 'the Oversoul'
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." Plato, Republic
The Great Transformation is a great ... Read More
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I really, really wanted to like this book. Its premise is compelling; during the so-called "Axial Age"--that is, from 1600 to 900 BC--world events led to the rise of four great religious traditions: the development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Earlier beliefs that the gods (plural) were to be worshipped for their ability to bring bounty to a particular people or to assist them in territorial warfare ... Read More
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It started off badly when the narrative began with the notion that once upon a time proto-Aryans lived peacefully and justly until etc.
I found the historic events described to support the "axial" thesis rather selective, and the manner of their interpretation contrived.
Not an honest historical account.
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Extremely well-written record of the Axial ages, of the Axial people and the Axial spirituality. This book traces the history of the Aryans, the vedic people in India; the Greeks and their times; the Jews and their spirituality and rituals; the Chinese people and their history. This book is the precursor of Karen Armstrong's book "The history of God".
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Karen Armstrong, a commentator and historian of the world's religions, adds to her writings another interesting exploration of the roots and origins of the world's faiths. In this study, Armstrong in particular examines the crucial period originally called the 'Axial Age' by the existentialist thinker and theologian Karl Jaspers, though updated to reflect the new findings by historians and archeaologists about the origins of the world's major faiths. Armstrong examines the founders of the Semitic, Chinese, ... Read More
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