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A History of God by Karen Armstrong
34.99 NZD
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 Short History of Myth (Myth Series) by Karen Armstrong
25.00 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: History
As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that begins at a Neanderthal graveside and ends buried in the heart of the modern novel. Surprising, powerful ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
27.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.
Fields of Blood - Religion...Violence by Karen Armstrong
27.99 NZD
Category: History
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 one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. * Religion is as old as humanity ...Show more
Holy War by Karen Armstrong
12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name ...Show more
In the Beginning by Karen Armstrong
29.99 NZD
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
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Religion | Series: Universal History | Reading Level: very good
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
Muhammad : Prophet for our time (Eminent Lives) by Karen Armstrong
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Religion
From the bestselling writer of The History of God and the widely acclaimed Islam - A Short History comes another valuable addition to the Eminent Lives Series: Karen Armstrong's Muhammad. Muhammad recognized and seeked to transform a period in seventh-century Arabia, a spirit of the time he named j ...Show more
On The Bible by Karen Armstrong
29.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S. | Reading Level: very good
A ground-breaking explanation of the single most influential text of all time by the world's foremost religious historian. The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over 2,000 languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last 200 ye ...Show more
Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
38.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
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
24.99 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
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
St Paul by Karen Armstrong
36.99 NZD
Category: Religion
"St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the ...Show more