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....

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...

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...

"Muhammad: Prophet for Our Time" von Karen Armstrong ist eine biografische Darstellung des Lebens und der Lehren des islamischen Propheten Muhammad. Das Buch bietet einen detaillierten Einblick in die historischen, kulturellen und...

Nah ist und schwer zu fassen der Gott. 3000 Jahre Glaubensgeschichte von Abraham bis Albert Einstein.

"The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism" von Karen Armstrong ist eine tiefgehende Untersuchung der Ursprünge und Entwicklungen des religiösen Fundamentalismus im Judentum, Christentum und Islam. Armstrong beleuchtet die...

`Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word¿What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is `God¿ and do we need `Him¿ in our modern world? Karen Armstrong looks again at...

The author of "The Case For God" looks into the use and abuse of holy texts in the modern world, emphasising that there would be less scripture-led arrogance, conflict and violence were they to be taken as something other than truth to...

A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong - 'One of our best living writers on religion' FINANCIAL TIMES von Armstrong, Karen

A concise, yet comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of the Buddha, written by the bestselling author of "A History of God", which has been translated into thirty languages. von Armstrong, Karen

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