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Karen Armstrong is a former Catholic nun, historian, and English author best known for her non-fiction books on comparative religion. Armstrong became disillusioned with her faith after a visit to Jerusalem in 1984 and subsequently changed her beliefs to reflect the idea that all the the main religions are fundamentally the same.

Armstrong's first book, Jerusalem One City, Three Faiths, was based on her comparative religion views and was published in 1996. Since that time her focus has shifted to Islamic issues and some credit the author with bringing a more objective view of Islam to European and American audiences. Armstrong's insights into the Islamic faith along with her connections to Bill Moyers, the United Nations, and the U.S. Congress have made her a popular speaker.

For an introduction into Armstrong's works, try the audio book download of The Bible A Biography, in which the author discusses the history of the world's most powerful book in captivating detail. Armstrong also offers readers a portrait of Asian religion in Buddha, which is conveniently available for audio download. Her live presentation of The Future of God, also available in audiobook download format, explores Armstrong's ideas on how our concept of God has evolved and what it will mean to us in the future.

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

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Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong.

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In her latest comparative study, Fields of Blood, Armstrong, one of today's leading historians of religion, and author of The Case for God, considers the roles violence has played in different faiths.

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Karen Armstrong, a former nun, teaches Christianity at Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism.

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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.

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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."

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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...

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Ms. Armstrong talked about her book Islam: A Short History, published by Modern Library. The book traces the origins and growth of the Islamic faith. She also talked about how and why the faith is often misunderstood.

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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.

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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.

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