In a study that PW found ambitious and controversial, London-based feminist Armstrong shows how the medieval witch craze, sex-denying Victorian England and even today's Christianity have perpetuated ...

Karen Armstrong is on a rather estimable rescue mission: to restore the world's great sacred testaments to their original purpose. These writings, she argues in her new book "The Lost Art of Scripture ...

Cracking open "The Case for God" is like receiving an invitation to the grown-ups' table. You'll need your wits, your appetite and your best manners -- including a new receptiveness to those who sit ...

Make a list of the subjects that cause people to bristle when told they’re doing it all wrong. Sex, politics and religion have to be the top three, right? I suppose parenting is up there, though not ...

Karen Armstrong planned another deep dive into the spaces between the known and unknown with humankind and its host planet. Her career as an author has been defined by compressing infinite and ...

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong is a former Catholic nun who rose to prominence after 9/11, when she was able to do what few others would, or could: explain Islam to an angry and terrified West. She ...

The prolific, well-informed, and passionate Armstrong (The Case for God) writes a somewhat different book this time out, stemming from her winning a $100,000 prize in 2007 to promote an idea worth ...

The religious scholar and author sat down to talk about other issues following her April 11 talk at Elizabethtown College. Following her talk “Leading a Compassionate Life,” at Elizabethtown College ...

The Western world’s conception of God has never recovered from Sir Isaac Newton’s own brand of Christianity, says Karen Armstrong. Before the 17th century’s “father of physics” claimed to have proved ...

The Bible is the most widely circulated book in history and one of the most influential texts of all time. Religious affairs expert Karen... Karen Armstrong Writes 'Biography' of the Bible The Bible ...

Prophets traditionally have scolded with harsh and unmistakable clarity. Not Karen Armstrong. In writing "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence," the British writer and commentator ...

Independent scholar and former Catholic nun Karen Armstrong has been writing books for 25 years. In an age of narrowly focused scholarship, she has tackled the broad scope of the world's great ...