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.

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."

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.

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."