Karen Armstrong Audio Downloads

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.

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.

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.

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.