Karen Armstrong

As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world.

Moving from the Paleolithic to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality.

About eight centuries before Christ, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in

“It has never been more important for Western people to acquire a just appreciation and understanding of Islam,” writes Karen Armstrong, author of The Battle for God, one of the world’s foremost historians and thinkers on religious affairs.

What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? A history of myth is a history of humanity, Karen Armstrong argues in this insightful and eloquent book: our stories and beliefs, our attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other.