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Religious education

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Seminary Boy John Cornwell Fourth Estate, 352pp, �15.99 ISBN 0007232438

Religion: What�s God got to do with it?

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The great faiths share the same historical roots - and believing in a deity hasn't always been necessary

Elusive reality

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:00:00 GMT

The Holy Grail: imagination and belief Richard Barber Allen Lane, 464pp, �25 ISBN 0713992069

Ineffable mystery

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:00:00 GMT

After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the shadow of the Holocaust Richard Harries Oxford University Press, 239pp, �16.99 ISBN 0199263132

Don't blame the Muslims. Karen Armstrong on why we should never forget that the destruction wreaked by war continues long after the soldiers have gone home

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:00:00 GMT

The Far-Farers: a journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem Victoria Clark Macmillan, 459pp, �20 ISBN 033390219X

The gods meet fire with fire

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:00:00 GMT

The fundamentalists have hijacked religion since 11 September; and the secular fundamentalists are as dangerous as the Christian, Islamic and Jewish varieties

Cries of rage and frustration

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Terror in America: Fundamentalism - The US is the true home of religious extremism, which begins not as a crusade against outsiders, but as hatred of those of the same faith

Convert to Islam

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:00:00 GMT

The Lost Messiah: in search of Sabbatai Sevi John Freely Viking, 275pp, �20 ISBN 0670886750

The loneliness of the intellectual woman

Karen Armstrong — Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Virginia Woolf prescribed a room of one's own for women writers. Karen Armstrong finds that it's more like a lifetime on your own