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

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
  • 3 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

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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