Buddha

Zusatztext During the past four decades, Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world. Informationen zum Autor Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, an experience she recollected in her two volumes of best-selling autobiography, Through the Narrow Gate and Beginning the World. She is the author of the world-wide best-seller, A History of God (which has now appeared in more than thirty languages), the acclaimed History of Jerusalem and, most recently, The Battle for God. She is a teacher at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and, in 1999, she received the Muslim Public Affairs Council Media Award. Klappentext A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker. 'Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world' GUARDIAN Vorwort A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker. 'Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world' GUARDIAN Zusammenfassung A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker. 'Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world' GUARDIAN

Product details

• Authors: Karen Armstrong, Armstrong Karen
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.03.2002
• EAN: 9780753813409
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-1340-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 199 mm x 18 mm
• Series: LIVES; LIVES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Spirituality, HISTORY / Asia / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, Religion: general, History of Religion, History: earliest times to present day, Asian History, Biography: religious and spiritual, Biography: philosophy and social sciences