Karen Armstrong

"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 have perceived and …

Em nome de Deus é um livro escrito pela ex-freira católica e renomada historiadora da religião chamada Karen Armstrong, cuja maior parte de sua produção acadêmica se desenvolveu após seu desligamento com a religiosidade, tal como ela própria afirma em outras obras, como a autobiográfica "A Escada em Espiral" e "Uma …

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 writing about …

With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered ?penetrating, readable, and prescient? (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the …