Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong è una autrice e commentatrice britannica molto nota, rinomata per la sua competenza in materia di religione comparata. È nata il 14 novembre 1944 a Wildmoor, Worcestershire, e in seguito si è trasferita con la sua famiglia a Bromsgrove e Birmingham. Armstrong è stata cresciuta in una famiglia irlandese cattolica e ha frequentato una scuola conventuale, il che ha portato alla sua decisione eventuale di diventare una suora. Tuttavia, ha lasciato il convento dopo sette anni e ha intrapreso una carriera nell'insegnamento.

Armstrong è autrice di diversi bestseller sui temi della religione, tra cui "The Case for God", "A History of God", "The Battle for God", "Holy War", "Islam", "Buddha" e "Fields of Blood", nonché una memoir intitolata "The Spiral Staircase". Il suo lavoro è stato tradotto in 45 lingue, dimostrando l'impatto globale e la rilevanza della sua scrittura. Nel 2008, Armstrong è stata insignita del TED Prize per i suoi sforzi per promuovere la comprensione interreligiosa e la compassione. Ha utilizzato questo premio per lanciare la Carta della Compassione, un documento online creato da individui di diversi background religiosi e secolari, che è stato firmato da oltre 100.000 persone.

I contributi di Armstrong al dibattito religioso sono stati riconosciuti attraverso numerosi premi e riconoscimenti. Nel 2008, ha ricevuto la Medaglia Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms, e nel 2013, è stata insignita del premio Nayef Al-Rodhan della British Academy per la Comprensione Transculturale. Ha anche ricevuto inviti a parlare in vari eventi e istituzioni prestigiose, tra cui il Congresso degli Stati Uniti, il Dipartimento di Stato degli Stati Uniti, il World Economic Forum e il Council on Foreign Relations. La capacità di Armstrong di colmare le divisioni culturali e religiose l'ha resa una relatrice richiesta e un'autorità negli affari religiosi. Attualmente risiede a Londra e continua a scrivere e parlare su questioni relative a religione e compassione.
Libri di non-fiction
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1 Beginning the World 1983
2 The First Christian 1983
3 The Gospel According to Woman 1986
4 Holy War 1988
5 The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century 1991
6 The End of Silence 1993
7 A History of God 1993
8 Visions of God 1994
9 Jerusalem 1996
10 In the Beginning 1996
11 Shifting Ground and Cultural Bodies 1999
12 The Battle for God 2000
13 Faith After 11 September 2002
14 The Great Transformation 2006
15 The Case for God 2009
16 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The Hebrews 2010
17 Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life 2010
18 A Letter To Pakistan 2011
19 Fields of Blood 2014
20 The Lost Art of Scripture 2019
21 Sacred Nature 2022
22 The Story Of God 2022
Biographies & Memoirs
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1 Through the Narrow Gate 1981
2 Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time 1991
3 The Spiral Staircase 2004
4 Buddha 2001
Books That Changed the World Books
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1 Thomas Paine's Rights of Man 2006
2 Thomas Paine's Rights of Man ( By: Christopher Hitchens) 2006
3 The Qur'an: A Biography (By: Bruce B. Lawrence) 2006
4 The Qur'an: A Biography 2006
5 Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography 2006
6 Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (By: Janet Browne) 2006
7 Plato's Republic 2006
8 On The Wealth of Nations (By: P.J. O'Rourke) 2006
9 On The Wealth of Nations 2006
10 Homer's The Iliad And The Odyssey ( By: Alberto Manguel) 2007
11 Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey 2007
12 The Bible 2007
13 The Qur'an (By: Bruce B. Lawrence) 2007
14 Darwin's Origin of Species (By: Janet Browne) 2007
15 The Qur'an 2007
16 Darwin's Origin of Species 2007
17 Plato's Republic (By: Simon Blackburn) 2007
18 Clausewitz's on War (By: Hew Strachan) 2007
19 Clausewitz's on War 2007
20 Marx's Das Kapital (By: Francis Wheen) 2007
21 Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey": A Biography (By: Alberto Manguel) 2024
22 Marx's Das Kapital 2007
Canongate's The Myths Books
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1 A Short History of Myth 2004
2 Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson 2005
3 Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson (By: David Grossman) 2005
4 The Penelopiad 2005
5 The Penelopiad (By: Margaret Atwood) 2005
6 Weight 2005
7 Weight (By: Jeanette Winterson) 2005
8 The Helmet of Horror 2005
9 The Helmet of Horror (By: Victor Pelevin) 2005
10 Where Three Roads Meet (By: Salley Vickers) 2005
11 Where Three Roads Meet 2005
12 Binu and the Great Wall (By: Su Tong) 2006
13 Binu and the Great Wall 2006
14 Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (By: Dubravka Ugrešić) 2007
15 Baba Yaga Laid an Egg 2007
16 The Goddess Chronicle (By: Natsuo Kirino) 2013
17 The Goddess Chronicle 2013
Eminent Lives Books
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1 Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time 1991
2 Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero 2004
3 Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (By: Michael Korda) 2004
4 George Balanchine 2004
5 George Balanchine (By: Robert Gottlieb) 2004
6 Beethoven (By: Edmund Morris) 2005
7 Beethoven 2005
8 Thomas Jefferson 2005
9 Thomas Jefferson ( By: Christopher Hitchens) 2005
10 Caravaggio ( By: Francine Prose) 2005
11 Caravaggio 2005
12 Alexander the Great (By: Norman F. Cantor) 2005
13 Alexander the Great 2005
14 Freud (By: Peter D. Kramer) 2006
15 Freud 2006
16 Francis Crick (By: Matt Ridley) 2006
17 Francis Crick 2006
18 Alexis de Tocqueville (By: Joseph Epstein) 2006
19 Alexis de Tocqueville 2006
20 Shakespeare (By: Bill Bryson) 2007
21 Shakespeare 2007
22 Machiavelli 2007
23 Machiavelli (By: Ross King) 2007
24 George Washington (By: Paul Johnson) 2009
25 George Washington 2009
Icons Books
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1 Jesus 2013
2 Jesus ( By: Jay Parini) 2013
3 Edgar Allan Poe 2014
4 Edgar Allan Poe (By: Paul Collins) 2014
5 Van Gogh 2014
6 Van Gogh (By: Julian Bell) 2014
7 Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much (By: Michael Wood) 2015
8 St Paul 2015
Modern Library Chronicles Books
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1 California (By: Kevin Starr) 1980
2 California 1980
3 Communism 1994
4 Communism (By: Richard Pipes) 1994
5 London 1995
6 London (By: A.N. Wilson) 1995
7 The Balkans 2000
8 The Balkans (By: Mark Mazower) 2000
9 The German Empire (By: Michael Sturmer) 2000
10 The German Empire 2000
11 The Catholic Church 2001
12 The Catholic Church (By: Hans Küng) 2001
13 Peoples and Empires 2001
14 Peoples and Empires (By: Anthony Pagden) 2001
15 Hitler and the Holocaust 2001
16 Hitler and the Holocaust (By: Robert S. Wistrich) 2001
17 Law in America (By: Lawrence M. Friedman) 2002
18 Law in America 2002
19 The American Revolution 2002
20 The American Revolution (By: Gordon S. Wood) 2002
21 Inventing Japan (By: Ian Buruma) 2003
22 Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 2003
23 The Americas (By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto) 2003
24 The Americas 2003
25 The Boys' Crusade 2003
26 The Boys' Crusade (By: Paul Fussell) 2003
27 The Reformation (By: Patrick Collinson) 2003
28 The Reformation 2003
29 The Company 2003
30 The Company (By: Adrian Wooldridge, John Micklethwait) 2003
31 The Age of Shakespeare 2004
32 The Age of Shakespeare (By: Frank Kermode) 2004
33 The Age of Napoleon 2004
34 The Age of Napoleon (By: Alistair Horne) 2004
35 Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics 2004
36 Infinite Ascent (By: David Berlinski) 2004
37 Evolution (By: Edward J. Larson) 2004
38 Evolution 2004
39 Nazism and War (By: Richard Bessel) 2004
40 Nazism and War 2004
41 The City 2005
42 The City (By: Joel Kotkin) 2005
43 A Short History of Medicine (By: F. González-Crussí) 2006
44 A Short History of Medicine 2006
45 Storm from the East (By: Milton Viorst) 2006
46 Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World & the Christian West 2006
47 Baseball 2006
48 Baseball (By: George Vecsey) 2006
49 The Hellenistic Age (By: Peter Green) 2007
50 The Hellenistic Age 2007
51 Prehistory (By: Colin Renfrew) 2007
52 Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind 2007
53 The Renaissance 2007
54 The Renaissance (By: Paul Johnson) 2007
55 Islam 2007
56 The Christian World (By: Martin E. Marty) 2008
57 The Christian World 2008
58 Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History 2008
59 Dangerous Games (By: Margaret MacMillan) 2008
60 Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment 2009
61 The Romantic Revolution (By: Timothy C.W. Blanning) 2010
62 The Korean War (By: Bruce Cumings) 2010
63 The Romantic Revolution 2010
64 The Korean War 2010
Penguin Lives Books
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1 Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally) 1960
2 Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence) 1999
3 Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay) 1999
4 Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White) 1999
5 Crazy Horse (By: Larry McMurtry) 1999
6 Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills) 1999
7 James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien) 1999
8 Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley) 2000
9 Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson) 2000
10 Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss) 2000
11 Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick) 2000
12 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland) 2000
13 Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis) 2001
14 Jane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields) 2001
15 Buddha 2001
16 Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray) 2001
17 Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum) 2001
18 Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady) 2001
19 Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini) 2002
20 Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan) 2002
21 Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill) 2002
22 Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley) 2002
23 Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason) 2002
24 Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison) 2003
25 Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.) 2003
26 Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable) 2004
27 George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker) 2004
28 Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson) 2006
29 Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro) 2007
30 Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon) 2008
31 Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty) 2008
32 Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin) 2011
Karen Armstrong Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Tongues of Fire 1986
2 The Changing Face of God 2000
3 God at 2000 2001