Karen Armstrong Audio & Video

From the author of the bestselling "A History of God" comes an illuminating chronicle of the fundamentalist forms of religion and the forces of modernism that have brought it into existence.

Meet Karen Armstrong, one of the world's leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling 'A History of God' introducing a major new work: The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions.

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 rising fundamentalism.

This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man....

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.

Comparative religion scholar Karen Armstrong presents The Case for God. Going back to the early history of the human race, and taking examples from all the world's major religions, Armstrong finds the thread of a human longing and seeking for a divine being that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.

The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world — beginning in what is now southern Iraq and ending in the West Bank city of Hebron.

One of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs, Karen Armstrong discusses the intersection of religion and secularism in contemporary life.

What does tomorrow hold for the way we worship God? On The Future of God, Karen Armstrong guides us through a bewildering landscape, over many centuries and civilizations...

From one of the world's leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling A History of God, The Battle for God, and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time.