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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Karen Armstrong, a popular historian of religion whose bestselling A History of God brought her to national prominence in 1993, ...

This is both a polemical and a deeply irenic book. Armstrong’s stated subject is the false (to her) thesis that religion is and always has been a primary cause of violence and war. Her argument rests ...

Having already recounted "a history of God," the redoubtable Armstrong here narrates the evolution of the religious traditions of the world from their births to their maturity. In her typical ...

NEW YORK -- After she left the convent, Karen Armstrong called herself an atheist. "I used to hate religion," she says. "I loathed it in my angry days." Seventeen books later, she is recognized as one ...

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong sits down with Christiane Amanpour to tell her amazing life journey from religious nun to secular scripture expert. Brendan Simms explains how Adolf Hitler came to ...

Karen Armstrong, a popular historian of religion whose bestselling A History of God brought her to national prominence in 1993, is back in the news. Her new book, The Case for God, revisits some ...