Karen Armstrong

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The Great Transformation: The Beginni...

Karen Armstrong

Examines the origins of the religious traditions of the world during the ninth century B.C.E. in four distinct regions--Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rational...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2006

The History of God: The 4,000 Year Qu...

Karen Armstrong

This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Arms...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2004

The Spiral Staircase

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong spent seven years in a convent (which she described in a previous memoir) and, when she left, was at a loss as to what to do with her life. In THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, she writes about her difficulties, as she first picke...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2004

The Battle For God

Karen Armstrong

Armstrong succeeds - brilliantly - in placing fundamentalist movements in a historical context, showing how each is both a product of its times and typical of recurring trends....Armstrong, with her astonishing depth of knowledge and ...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2004

The Case for God

Karen Armstrong

A nuanced exploration of the part religion plays in human life, past and present, from one of the foremost commentators on religion at work today.Moving from the Paleolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great length...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

The Bible: A Biography (Books That Ch...

Karen Armstrong

In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of historys most powerful book---the Bible. This is a brilliant, captivating book, crucial in an age of declining faith and ris...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2007
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