Karen Armstrong Audio & Video

With her talk on Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time, Armstrong first takes on the definition of Jihad, explaining that as opposed to Holy War, the term more appropriately describes a "struggle" all believers must wage on their way to spiritual clarity.

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....

Comparative religion scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how she stumbled into her field during a trip to Jerusalem and ever since she has studied the Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

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.