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.
- ISBN10 1903809754
- ISBN13 9781903809754
- Publish Date 9 March 2006 (first published 1 January 2006)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 June 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 496
- Language English