Karen Armstrong Audio Downloads

Karen Armstrong presents a concise and articulate history of Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith...

In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of historys most powerful book---the Bible. This is a brilliant, captivating book, crucial in an age of declining faith and rising fundamentalism.

This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man....

Strange as it may seem, the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism, Karen Armstrong asserts in her fascinating work "A History of God."

The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world — beginning in what is now southern Iraq and ending in the West Bank city of Hebron.

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 that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.

From one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world, a profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature-and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life.

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

Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent audiobook serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense and explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril.

From one of the world's leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling A History of God, The Battle for God, and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time.