How long does it take to read The Great Transformation?
the beginning of our religious traditions
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong takes about 10 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 565 pages, about 155,375 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
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: 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.
Subjects: Ancient History, Ancient Philosophy, History, History, Ancient, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Ancient
