Armstrong, Karen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 202.11 ARMArmstrong, Karen.
Summary: Religious historian Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity's sacred text. She explores how "as the pragmatic scientific...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.09 ARMArmstrong, Karen.
Summary: As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 220.09 ARMArmstrong, Karen.
Summary: This program shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish. Focusing on Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalism, the author examines the ways in which these movements, while not monolithic, have each sprung from a dread of modernity-- and often in response to assault, sometimes unwitting, sometimes intentional, by the mainstream society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200.9 ARMArmstrong, Karen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996