The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious TraditionsIn 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 daydevelopment 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