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expositions-53	none	Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Tradition. Alfred A. Knopf. New York/Toronto, 2006. pp. 469	2007	8	.pdf	application/pdf	2866	96	48	The question, however, is whether the re- sulting coherent narrative is an adequate portrayal of reality, or in- stead—and this appears increasingly likely as we read on—Armstrong’s Axial Age is a sort of a theological Procrustean bed, where the limbs of different traditions are broken by willful overstretching. In her introduction, Armstrong resorts to Jaspers’ notion of an “Axial Age” to denote the period between 900 BCE and 200 BCE, when “the great world traditions that have continued to nourish humanity” (xii) came into being.	cache/expositions-53.pdf	txt/expositions-53.txt