The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
Alfred A. Knopf / Random House; 1st edition | March 28, 2006 | English | ISBN: 0375413170 | 496 pages | PDF | 16 MB
In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece.