Karen Armstrong, Author Anchor Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-24079-6
In a study that PW found ambitious and controversial, London-based feminist Armstrong shows how the medieval witch craze, sex-denying Victorian England and even today's Christianity have perpetuated hatred, mistrust and fear of women and the body,...
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Karen Armstrong. Amazon/New Harvest, $20 (200p) ISBN 978-0-544-61739-1
Bestselling author Armstrong (A History of God), a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, constructs a solid overview of the life of St. Paul, arguably the first Christian writer. Armstrong's view of Paul elevates him above the status of traveling Jewish...
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Karen Armstrong. Knopf, $30 (528p) ISBN 978-0307957047
Bracing as ever, Armstrong (The Case for God) sweeps through religious history around the globe and over 4,000 years to explain the yoking of religion and violence and to elucidate the ways in which religion has also been used to counter violence....
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Karen Armstrong, Knopf, $22 (248p) ISBN 978-0-307-59559-1
The prolific, well-informed, and passionate Armstrong (The Case for God) writes a somewhat different book this time out, stemming from her winning a $100,000 prize in 2007 to promote an idea worth spreading. She always has a thesis in her books as...
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Karen Armstrong, Author Viking Penguin $19.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-670-89193-1
Armstrong's esteemed works, including such standards as A History of God and The Battle for God, have primarily focused on the monotheism of the Middle East. Now she turns farther eastward to craft this short biography for the Penguin Lives series....
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Karen Armstrong, Author HarperOne $23 (290p) ISBN 978-0-06-250014-4
In a meticulous quest for the historical Muhammad, Armstrong first traces the West's long history of hostility toward Islam, which it has stigmatized as a ``religion of the sword.'' This sympathetic, engrossing biography portrays Muhammad (ca. 570-63
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Karen Armstrong, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (366p) ISBN 978-0-385-24078-9
One of the controversial theories of this ambitious study is that marriage and the family in the Christian West have not been accorded the value and respect they have enjoyed in other cultures. London-based feminist Armstrong traces this attitude...
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Karen Armstrong, Author Knopf Publishing Group $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-41318-6
In 1969, British writer Armstrong (The Battle for God, etc.) entered a Roman Catholic convent, smitten by the desire to""find God."" She was 17 years old at the time--too young, she recognizes now, to have made such a momentous decision. Armstrong's
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Karen Armstrong, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (195p) ISBN 978-0-679-45089-4
Having written A History of God (1993) and Jerusalem (1996), prolific and bestselling author Armstrong turns her considerable imaginative skill and critical acumen to an interpretation of the first book of the Bible. In a series of short meditations,
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Karen Armstrong, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (471p) ISBN 978-0-679-43596-9
British religious scholar Armstrong (A History of God) has written a provocative, splendid historical portrait of Jerusalem that will reward those seeking to fathom a strife-torn city. Her overarching theme, that Jerusalem has been central to the...
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Karen Armstrong, Author Anchor Books $16.95 (628p) ISBN 978-0-385-24194-6
Judaism, Christianity and Islam--obviously central to Middle East crises today--were also at the crux of the Crusades nearly 1000 years ago. Maps. (Mar.)
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Karen Armstrong, Author . Canongate $18 (159p) ISBN 978-1-84195-716-6
This is an pedestrian study from the noted and popular religion scholar, in which Armstrong takes a historical approach to myth, tracing its evolution through a series of periods, from the Paleolithic to the postmyth Great Western Transformation....
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Karen Armstrong, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-43597-6
Former nun and A History of God iconoclast Armstrong delves deeply once again into the often violent histories of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this time exploring the rise of fundamentalist enclaves in all three religions. Armstrong begins her...
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Karen Armstrong, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $32 (460p) ISBN 978-0-679-42600-4
This searching, profound comparative history of the three major monotheistic faiths fearlessly illuminates the sociopolitical ground in which religious ideas take root, blossom and mutate. Armstrong, a British broadcaster, commentator on religious...
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Karen Armstrong, Author . Atlantic Monthly $21.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-87113-969-6
Of all the “Books That Changed the World”—the recently launched series to which this book belongs—surely the Bible is among the most important. And of all contemporary popularizers of religious history, surely Armstrong is...
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Karen Armstrong, Author . Knopf $30 (469p) ISBN 978-0-375-41317-9
Having already recounted "a history of God," the redoubtable Armstrong here narrates the evolution of the religious traditions of the world from their births to their maturity. In her typical magisterial fashion, she chronicles these tales...
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Karen Armstrong, Author, Karen Armostrong, Author Modern Library $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-64040-0
Readers seeking a quick but thoughtful introduction to Islam will want to peruse Armstrong's latest offering. In her hallmark stylish and accessible prose, the author of A History of God takes readers from the sixth-century days of the Prophet...
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Karen Armstrong, Author, Karen Armstrong, Read by , read by the author. Random House Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2532-2
It's not what one may expect from a book about the development of the world's religions: "Crouched in his mother's womb, he lay in wait for his father, armed with a sickle, and the next time Uranus penetrated Gaia, he cut off his...
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Karen Armstrong, Author, Josephine Bailey, Read by , read by Josephine Bailey. Tantor Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0394-2
Part of Atlantic Monthly
's Books That Changed the World series, this “biography” ambitiously undertakes discussing not only the Bible itself (including its history, authorship and origins) but more than 2,000 years of its...
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