Books by Karen Armstrong

Through the Narrow Gate (1994)
A renowned religious commentator and author of A History of God details her own spiritual quest, pre...

A History of God (1994)
The 4,000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam....

The Bible (2008)
Examines the Bible's complex history, the social and political environment in which oral history bec...

Through the Narrow Gate, Revised (2005)
Recounts the seven years that the author spent in a convent beginning at the age of seventeen, descr...

The Spiral Staircase (2005)
The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, he...

Buddha (2004)
A portrait of the Buddha explores his identities both as an archetypal religious icon and as a man, ...

Myths Boxset (2005)
Featuring each of the first 3 titles of the Myth series - The Penelopiad, Weight, and A Short Histor...

The Battle for God (2001)
Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a drea...

A Short History of Myth (2005)
The author of The History of God and In the Beginning: A New Reading of Genesis offers a useful, wel...

Islam (2002)
Traces the history of Islam, from the flight of Muhammad and the founding of the first mosques to th...