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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Knopf: October 2014

Seller ID: 6009

ISBN: 0307957047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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

For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance, and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? With deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong sets out to discover the truth about religion and violence in each of the world's great traditions, taking us on ...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: ~~$8.50~~ $5.95

Publisher: Anchor: September 2015

Seller ID: 24510

ISBN: 0307946967

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

With a new postscript

In these times of rising geopolitical chaos, the need for mutual understanding between cultures has never been more urgent. Religious differences are seen as fuel for violence and warfare. In these pages, one of our greatest writers on religion, Karen Armstrong, amasses a sweeping history of humankind to explore the perceived connection between war and the world's great creeds--and to issue a passionate defense of the peaceful nature of faith.
With unprecedented scope, Armstrong looks at the whole history of each tradition--not only Christianity and ...
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $4.75

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf / Random House: March 2006

Seller ID: 27073

ISBN: 0375413170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Later generations further developed these initial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, for example, were all secondary flowerings of the original Israelite vision. Now, in "The Great Transformation," Karen Armstrong revea...
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The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Grove Press: November 2008

Seller ID: 27136

ISBN: 0802143849

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last two hundred years. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Its contents have changed over the centuries, it has been transformed by translation and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings to various religions, denominations, and sects.

In this semin...
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

By: Armstrong, Karen

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Publisher: Knopf: March 2004

Seller ID: 30138

ISBN: 0375413189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before--hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures.
Armstrong's struggle against despair was further fueled by a string of discouragements--failed spirituality, doctorate, and jobs; fruitless dealings with psychiatrists. Finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, given proper treatment, a...
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Author:Armstrong, Karen

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness