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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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