Explores the ways in which the "idea" and "experience" of God evolved among monotheists--Jews, Christians and Muslims.
In Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Armstrong suggests concrete ways of enhancing our compassion and putting it into action in our everyday lives.
We then freely choose, with full acknowledgement of our faults, to accept our fate and move on. This is the triumph of the human spirit. I thank Chris and his mother for telling their story.
Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest ...
In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe, we must rekindle our spiritual bond with the natural world.
Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as sacred. In this short but deeply powerful book, the best-selling historian of religion Karen Armstrong re-sacralizes nature for modern times.
In the period from the ninth century to the second century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have...
A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling author Karen Armstrong.
This is a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense–from Palaeolithic times to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last 500 years–and why we dismiss it only at our peril.
El libro de Karen Armstrong, referente mundial en el estudio de la historia de las religiones, supone una concisa, certera y absorbente aproximación a las más diversas expresiones del mito, desde los cazadores del Paleolítico hasta su ...
A 'visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making' (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God
Em 'Breve História do Mito', Karen Armstrong conduz o leitor a uma jornada através dos séculos para retraçar a história da mitologia - o que é, como se desenvolveu e...
The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Sacred is the lush official catalog of the groundbreaking British Library exhibit bearing the same name, which presents many of the world’s most beautiful religious texts for the first time....
A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Human beings have always been myth makers. . . So begins Karen Armstrong's concise yet compelling investigation into myth: how it has evolved and why it is so essential to our ability to live well.
La experta Karen Armstrong comienza esta fascinante biografia explicando como, en la Arabia del siglo VII, en un ambiente politeista y politicamente desunido, Muhammad ibn Abdallah, Mahoma (570-632), vivio una experiencia mistica que cambio ...
Campos de sangre: la religión y la historia de la violencia
Historia Boga: 4000 lat dziejów Boga w judaizmie, chrześcijaństwie i islamie
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 has been referred to by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah or ...