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Born Free
1st August 2006, 06:31 AM
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

For the Amazon listing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375413170/sr=1-1/qid=1154430767/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3253423-8451922?ie=UTF8&s=books

You can hear a copy of a media interview on the The Brian Lehrer Show on New York Public Radio at:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2006/03/28

The interview is down the page a bit:

When the Buddha Met Ezekiel

Karen Armstrong, author, The Great Transformation (Knopf, 2006)
-on the foundation of the major world religious traditions

The interview was 28th March this year, and sounds like it was on the promotional tour for this new book.

This book appears to spell out the Axial Age (900-200BC) where the foundations for modern civilised behaviour emerged in 4 corners of the world spontaneously and separately, better than anywhere else.

Daryl

peter_mary
1st August 2006, 08:26 AM
...but it's on my summer reading list. I'm currently on a Grizzly Bear kick, reading up on the critters with whom I share the woods when I'm out stomping around my home country.

A good buddy of mine has read it, however, and found it to be fabulous. I look forward to picking it up.