Author: Armstrong, Karen

This vivid and detailed biography strips away centuries of distortion and myth and presents a balanced view of the man whose religion continues to dramatically affect the course of history.
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Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Knopf : September 2022

Seller ID: 475515

ISBN-13: 9780593319437

Binding: Hardcover

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The Battle for God

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Ballantine Books : January 2001

Seller ID: 292371

ISBN-13: 9780345391698

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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 harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish. We see the West in the sixteenth century beginning to create an entirely new kind of civilization, which brought in its wake change in every aspect of li...
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The Case for God

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Anchor : September 2010

Seller ID: 477687

ISBN-13: 9780307389800

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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 has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in o...
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf / Random House : March 2006

Seller ID: 313684

ISBN-13: 9780375413179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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. Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, for example, were all secondary flowerings of the original Israelite vision. Now, in "The Great Transformation," Karen Armstrong revea...
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Random House Audio : March 2006

Seller ID: 455517

ISBN-13: 9780739325322

Binding: Audio CD

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Going beyond spiritual archaeology, this audiobook is a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history from the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God. Abridged. 8 CDs.
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Knopf : March 2004

Seller ID: 329543

ISBN-13: 9780375413186

Binding: Hardcover

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Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before--hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures. Armstrong's struggle against despair was further fueled by a string of discouragements--failed spirituality, doctorate, and jobs; fruitless dealings with psychiatrists. Finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, given proper treatment, and r...
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Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : February 2005

Edition: 2

Seller ID: 241081

ISBN-13: 9780312340957

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life, and a vivid, moving account of the spiritual coming age of one of our most loved and respected interpreters of religious.

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Author: Armstrong, Karen

A Short History Of Myth (Canons)

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

The Battle for God

The Case for God

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

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