Karen Armstrong: 26 books
A History of God
The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious...
Jerusalem
One City, Three Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God,...
In the Beginning
A New Interpretation of Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
“Karen Armstrong is a genius.”—A. N. Wilson
As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature—the Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; the sacrifice of Isaac. Yet the meaning of Genesis...
The Battle for God
A History of Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and...
Buda
Una biografía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2017
La experta en historia de las religiones y Premio Princesa de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales Karen Armstrong, construye en Buda un retrato profundo y original sobre un icono religioso y, al mismo tiempo, sobre un ser humano.
Dueña de una prosa lúcida y rigurosa, Karen Armstrong sigue el recorrido...
by Karen Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
'The beautifully quirky title of Karen Armstrong’s first collection of poetry maps the final journey of a friend who is dying of cancer. These poems capture the warmth of unselfish love; of a relationship despite trying circumstances. A pact between two friends where one shares the burden vicariously...
Im Namen Gottes
Religion und Gewalt
Language: German
Release Date: September 26, 2014
In ihrem neuen Buch "Im Namen Gottes" nimmt die Autorin erstmals die Geschichte und Gegenwart von Judentum, Christentum und Islam in Bezug auf religiöse Gewalt in den Blick. Karen Armstrong geht den Ursachen dieser Gewalt auf den Grund. Das Ergebnis ihrer Untersuchung: Jahrtausendelang waren Politik...
Fields of Blood
Religion and the History of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.
For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
Islam
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. Karen Armstrong's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view....
Compassion
Manifeste révolutionnaire pour un monde meilleur
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Et si une vie meilleure était à portée de main ? Si la compassion, débarrassée du carcan religieux dans lequel elle a été trop longtemps enfermée, était la clef pour un monde plus juste et harmonieux ?
Une approche pragmatique, moderne et laïque qui convaincra tout un chacun de replacer...
The Bible
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world’s largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last...
by Karen Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind...
by Karen Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world—author of such acclaimed books as A History of God, Islam, and Buddha—now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place.
Karen Armstrong believes that while...
The Great Transformation
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought.
In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions...
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