From one of the world's foremost historians and thinkers on religious affairs comes the bestselling history of Islam, "a small gem, bristling with insight and sensitive historical analysis of a misunderstood and much maligned faith"...

Das prägnante Standardwerk zum Leben Buddhas - von einer der renommiertesten Religionswissenschaftlerinnen der Welt.

Karen Armstrong is one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun in the 1960s, but then left her teaching order in 1969 to read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1982,...

Seit dem späten zwanzigsten Jahrhundert sieht sich die Welt mit dem Aufkommen fundamentalistischer Bewegungen konfrontiert, die die Vorherrschaft westlicher, säkularer Werte in Frage stellen und sich aggressiv und gewaltsam Gehör...

"Sacred Nature: How We Can Recover Our Bond with the Natural World" von Karen Armstrong ist ein Buch, das sich mit der tiefen Verbindung zwischen Mensch und Natur auseinandersetzt und Wege aufzeigt, wie wir diese Beziehung...

Führen religiöse Überzeugungen zu Krieg und Terror? Oder wird im Gegenteil die Religion missbraucht, um politische Ziele zu erreichen? Die führende Religionswissenschaftlerin Karen Armstrong geht diesen Fragen nach und nimmt die...

The ancient roots of mythology and its contemporary legacy and centrality to the modern frame of reference are explored in this profound look at the human need for a story. von Armstrong, Karen

'Filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' - Guardian'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' - A.N. Wilson, author of The Victorians and Winnie and WolfIn this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert...

Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy...

A personal exploration of spirituality in the contemporary world, and the place of belief in the twenty-first century. Armstrong is the author of the bestseller, "A History Of God". It has sold over 8,000 copies in hardback....

In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. So what value, if any, can scripture hold for us today? And if our world no longer seems...

From one of the world's leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling "A History of God" comes a major new work: a chronicle of the ninth century BCE, when the peoples of four distinct regions of the...