Armstrong, Karen
Summary: "From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after Sept 11: That faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Presents a biography of Muhammad, focusing on the prophet's role in the creation of Islam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUHAMMAD ARMArmstrong, Karen.
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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: The author presents a history of religious faith with an emphasis on Christianity and discusses the decline of faith and rise of dogmatic atheism of the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 211 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality. While noting that the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level, she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 211 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.9 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: More is known about Muhammad than any other major religion founder, yet he remains mysterious. Born in 570 CE, he spent six decades spreading his message of peace and compassion. Yet for many people today, their knowledge of Muhammad is rife with misconceptions and misinformation, often fueled by bigotry. Armstrong sets the record straight, shattering the myth that Islam is a religion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 297.63 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, KAREN 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.09 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Examines the Bible's complex history, the social and political environment in which oral history became written scripture, how the various books were collected into a single volume, and its acceptance as Christianity's sacred text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 220.09 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing in-fluence. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld ArmstrongArmstrong, Karen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 211 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. The author's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view. The distillation of years of thinking and writing about Islam, it demonstrates that the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel ArmstrongArmstrong, Karen
Summary: "Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture--the holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions--may not be immediately obvious in our secular world but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 208 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: "Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear, to awe, to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as sacred. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Recounts the seven years that the author spent in a convent beginning at the age of seventeen, describing her religous doubts and spiritual struggles which led to her final recognition that she was not suited for life as a nun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, KAREN ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Shares practical recommendations for promoting world peace by cultivating one's intrinsic tendencies for compassion, outlining a program for achieving mindfulness and engaging in acts of kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 177.7 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200.9 ARMArmstrong, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9442 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Human beings have always been mythmakers. Theologian Armstrong here investigates myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters, up to the Great Western Transformation of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity, our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.209 ARMArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Taking as her starting point the teachings of the great world religions, Karen Armstrong demonstrates in twelve practical steps how we can bring compassion to the forefront of our lives. Armstrong argues that compassion is inseparable from humanity, and by transcending the limitations of selfishness on a daily basis we will not only make a difference in the world but also lead happier, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 177.7 ARMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177.7 ARMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help ArmstrongArmstrong, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007