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A History of God by Karen Armstrong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Religion
"The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable p ...Show more
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
" An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women h ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.
Fields of Blood - Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body
Our foremost scholar of religion challenges one of the most persistent myths of our time- that religion has been the cause of all major wars. It is the most persistent myth of our time- religion is the cause of all violence. But history suggests otherwise. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and ...Show more
In the Beginning by Karen Armstrong
$19.95 AUD
Category: Religion
The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the "Book of Genesis" lies in its stories - "Creation", "the Fall", "Cain and Abel", "Noah", "Abraham", "Jacob" and "Joseph". These ancient tales illuminate some of our most enduring and profound problems: cowardice, the struggle with ...Show more
Islam by Karen Armstrong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Universal History
In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the world's fastest growing faith; more than three-quarters of the world's refugees are Islamic; it has produced government by authoritarian monarchies in Saudi Arabia and ultra-republicans in Iran. Whether we are reading about civil war in Alge ...Show more
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and ...Show more
Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to change our relationship with nature, by one of the world's leading writers on religion and spirituality 'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' A.N. Wilson In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, i ...Show more
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
$25.00 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: ARMSTRONG, KAREN
In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excr ...Show more
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new wa ...Show more
The Battle For God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.
The Case for God: What Religion Really Means by Karen Armstrong
$32.95 AUD
Category: Religion
The enormous popularity of books by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and others shows that despite the religious revival that is under way in many parts of the world, there is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. The militant atheism we are witnessing at present is ...Show more