Karen Armstrong Audio

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....

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.

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.

Strange as it may seem, the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism, Karen Armstrong asserts in her fascinating work "A History of God."

Karen Armstrong presents a concise and articulate history of Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith...

Jerusalem, the Holy City, venerated for centuries by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike; no other city has remained the center of such conflict for so long.

Karen Armstrong is among the world's foremost commentators on religion.

People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious do.

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time.

Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent audiobook serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense and explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril.

The spellbinding story of her own search for God by the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling "A History of God, The Battle for God, Islam," and "Buddha."

Karen Armstrong is the highly regarded and highly opinioned religious scholar described by Salon.com as "arguably the most lucid, wide-ranging, and consistently interesting religion writer today."