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Världsreligionernas födelse (2006)

av Karen Armstrong

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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. 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.… (mer)
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    The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions av Huston Smith (MsMaryAnn)
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    12 steg till ett liv i medkänsla av Karen Armstrong (tajar)
    tajar: The Great Transformation can be a lot to get through. Two of my family members have confessed it was too much for them. So...for a way in to Karen Armstrong's ideas, I definitely recommend Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. It's much more of a practical guide then a historical consideration. However, if you are able to stick it out with Transformation, I still recommend it because it's a lovely guide and shows how the author's thinking has evolved.… (mer)
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About the author: "Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious affairs. . .Her work has been translated into forty languages. . ." About the book: "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. . ." Source: Book's dust jacket. This work contains a list of maps and plans. It has extensive notes, a glossary, a bibliography and is well-indexed
  uufnn | Dec 12, 2023 |
Karen Armstrong traces the development of major world religions from their beginnings and reveals how sages of these religions can speak clearly and helpfully to the violence and desperation that we experience in our own times.
  PendleHillLibrary | May 3, 2023 |
So much history here. Clear and objective commentary on those times BCE that I knew next to nothing about, using the evolution of religion as a focus. A great read from a smart, smart woman. I'll be reading her other books ASAP. ( )
  jdegagne | Apr 23, 2022 |
Caveat that I don't know enough about any of these religions to make any assertions about whether Armstrong is totally right or totally wrong about any of her assertions.

That said, I really enjoyed this one. I am becoming more and more interested in the historical underpinnings of Christianity and this book served as a great complement to some of that reading by illuminating how certain concepts like ascetism, selflessness and pacifism grew in different yet similar ways in different religious traditions. I do think this struggles from the typical affliction of a survey work where time periods are stretched/compressed in order to make a particular framing device work, but ultimately I learned enough to forgive it. ( )
  Jthierer | Mar 1, 2022 |
Comparative religion in doomed to fail, because religious ideas take their meaning from the systems they inhabit. With regard to the Hebrew Bible, Armstrong first follows the Chronicler, then the Deuteronomistic Historian, then Second Isaiah, then Jeremiah without admitting that she is “limping along between two” or three opinions. Finally, the assertion that the only or best significance of religion is for the purpose of interior spirituality is offensive and irritating. Doubtless much evil was and continues to be done in the name of religion, but abusus non tollit usum. ( )
  mmodine | Dec 26, 2020 |
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tillagd av Shortride | ändraBookslut, Barbara J. King (Jun 1, 2006)
 
In our own time of "great fear and pain,"Armstrong proposes that we look to the Axial sages for "two important pieces of advice," both of which turn out to be quite uncontroversial: We should practice self-criticism (amen), and we should "take practical, effective action" against excessively aggressive tendencies in our own traditions (amen again). But after 400 pages of historical argument, the banality of such declarations is staggering.
 

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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. 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.

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