Karen Armstrong

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Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong (born November 14, 1944 in Wildmoor , Worcestershire , UK ) is a British religious scholar .

Life

She was a Catholic nun for seven years from 1962 to 1969 before she left her order and went to Oxford University . Among other things, she taught at the Rabbinical Seminary at Leo Baeck College and was awarded the Muslim Public Affairs Council Media Award in 1999. Karen Armstrong is currently one of the most renowned scholars of religion and has written numerous bestsellers on the history of religion, some of which have been translated into numerous languages. In 2008 she was honored in Middelburg with the Four Freedoms Award in the religious freedom category. In 2009 she received the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . For 2017 Armstrong was awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize .

Works

Published in German

  • Muhammad. Founder of religion and statesman . Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-424-01176-2 (British English: Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet . Translated by Hedda Pänke).
  • God is near and difficult to grasp. 3000 years of faith history from Abraham to Albert Einstein . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-26693-8 (British English: A History of God . Translated by Doris Kornau, title of the new edition: History of Faith ).
  • Jerusalem - the Holy City . Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-570-12261-1 (British English: The History of Jerusalem . Translated by Angelika Felenda).
  • Little history of Islam . Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-442-76087-9 (British English: Islam: A Short Story . Translated by Stephen Tree).
  • Buddha . Claassen-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-546-00256-3 (British English: Buddha . Translated by Ulrich Enderwitz).
  • In the fight for God. Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism and Islam . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88680-769-X (British English: The Battle for God . Translated by Barbara Schaden).
  • A brief history of the myth . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-0450-0 (British English: A Short History of Myth . Translated by Ulrike Bischoff).
  • The Axial Age. From the origin of the world religions . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88680-856-4 (British English: The Great Transformation . Translated by Michael Bayer, Karin Schuler, title of the paperback edition: Der große Umbruch ).
  • Karen Armstrong on the Bible . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-34489-0 (British English: The Bible. A Biography . Translated by Barbara Schaden).
  • Plea for God . Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150305-4 (British English: The Case for God . Translated by Shivaun Heath, Claudia Rothenberger).
  • The story of God. 4000 years of Judaism, Christianity and Islam . Pattloch, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-629-13005-1 (British English: A History of God .).
  • In the name of God: religion and violence . Pattloch, Munich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-629-13039-6 (British English: Fields of blood. Religion and the History of Violence .).

more publishments

  • Through the narrow gate. A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery . St. Martin's Press, New York City 1981, ISBN 0-312-80383-4 .
  • The First Christian. Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity . Pan Books, London 1983, ISBN 0-330-28161-5 .
  • Beginning the World . St. Martin's Press, New York City 1983, ISBN 0-312-07181-7 .
  • Karen Armstrong (Ed.): Tongues of Fire. An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience . Viking Press, New York City 1985, ISBN 0-670-80878-4 (including texts by John Donne, Aischylos, Czesław Miłosz and Emily Dickinson).
  • The Gospel According to Woman. Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West . Elm Tree Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-241-11449-7 .
  • Holy War. The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World . Macmillan Publishers, London 1988, ISBN 0-333-44544-9 .
  • The End of Silence. Women and the Priesthood . Fourth Estate, New York City 1993, ISBN 1-85702-145-2 .
  • In the beginning. A New Interpretation of Genesis . Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 1996, ISBN 0-679-45089-0 .
  • Faith After September 11th . Maastricht University Press, Maastricht 2002, ISBN 90-807191-1-0 .
  • The spiral staircase. My climb out of darkness . Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-375-41318-9 .
  • Muhammad. A Prophet for Our Time . HarperCollins, New York City 2006, ISBN 0-06-059897-2 .
  • Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life . Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 2010, ISBN 978-0-307-59559-1 .
  • A Letter to Pakistan . Oxford University Press Pakistan, Karachi 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-906330-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Armstrong, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildmoor, Worcestershire , United Kingdom