MARC Record from marc_nuls

LEADER: 02533cam 22004934a 4500
001 9922073730001661
005 20161129154647.0
008 050503s2006 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005047536
016 $a20059054085
019 $a65204491
020 $a0375413170
020 $a0676974651
024 3 $a9780375413179
029 1 $aNLC$b20059054085
035 $a(CSdNU)u278021-01national_inst
035 $a(OCoLC)61500069
035 $a(OCoLC)61500069
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dOCO$dNLC$dVP@$dBUR$dIXA$dCOO
042 $apcc
049 $aCNUM
050 00 $aBL430$b.A76 2006
055 01 $aBL430
055 0 $aBL430$bA75 2006
055 00 $aBL430$bA75 2006
082 00 $a200.9/014$222
100 1 $aArmstrong, Karen,$d1944-
245 14 $aThe great transformation :$bthe beginning of our religious traditions /$cKaren Armstrong.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2006.
300 $axviii, 469 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn 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. Later generations further developed these initial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Now, Karen Armstrong reveals how the sages of this pivotal "Axial Age" can speak clearly and helpfully to the violence and desperation that we experience in our own times. The Axial Age faiths began in recoil from the unprecedented violence of their time. There was a remarkable consensus in their call for an abandonment of selfishness and a spirituality of compassion. The traditions of the Axial Age were not about dogma--all insisted on the primacy of compassion even in the midst of suffering.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aReligion$xHistory.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Ancient.
650 0 $aHistory, Ancient.
650 6 $aReligion$xHistoire.
650 6 $aEvolution sociale.
650 6 $aCivilisation ancienne.
650 6 $aReligion et civilisation.
938 $aBaker & Taylor$bBKTY$c30.00$d22.50$i0375413170$n0006518432$sactive
949 $aBL 430 .A76 2006$i31786102282636
994 $a92$bCNU
999 $aBL 430 .A76 2006$wLC$c1$i31786102282636$d2/23/2009$e2/12/2009 $lCIRCSTACKS$mNULS$n2$rY$sY$tBOOK$u7/13/2006