Karen Armstrong

Articles by Karen Armstrong

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Religious education

  • 18 September 2006

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

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

  • 10 April 2006
  • 1 comment

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

Elusive reality

  • 02 February 2004

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

Ineffable mystery

  • 30 June 2003

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

  • 10 February 2003

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

The gods meet fire with fire

  • 16 December 2002

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

  • 24 September 2001

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

  • 24 September 2001
  • 1 comment

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

The loneliness of the intellectual woman

  • 05 June 2000
  • 13 comments

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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