wyszukanych pozycji: 46
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Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet
ISBN: 9781842126080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. Karen Armstrong has written a biography which gives the reader a more profound and accurate understanding of Islam and its followers.
Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. Karen Armstrong has written a biography which gives the reader a more profound an...
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Mahomet. Prorok na nasze czasy
ISBN: 9788382528282 / Polski / twarda / 2026 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Jak zrozumieć Mahometa, jedną z najważniejszych postaci w historii ludzkości, bez stereotypów i uprzedzeń?Od wieków postać Mahometa, skromnego człowieka z Mekki, który zapoczątkował narodziny nowej religii - islamu, budzi ogromne kontrowersje. W książce Mahomet. Prorok na nasze czasy brytyjska publicystka i badaczka religii, Karen Armstrong, kreśli przenikliwą, rzetelną i przystępną opowieść o człowieku, którego życie i przesłanie zmieniły bieg historii świata.Autorka podejmuje próbę oddzielenia Mahometa, mistyka, człowieka pełnego pasji i politycznej...
Jak zrozumieć Mahometa, jedną z najważniejszych postaci w historii ludzkości, bez stereotypów i uprzedzeń?Od wieków postać Mahometa, skromnego...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
ISBN: 9780099564980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Is humanity on the brink of destroying itself? This book intends to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. It deals with ancient religious ideas and movements that have promoted peace and reconciliation across millennia of civilization.
Is humanity on the brink of destroying itself? This book intends to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. It deals with ancient religious ...
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St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle
ISBN: 9781782398158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A fascinating account of the life of St Paul, by the world's foremost religious historian.'Karen Armstrong is a genius' A. N. Wilson
A fascinating account of the life of St Paul, by the world's foremost religious historian.'Karen Armstrong is a genius' A. N. Wilson
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The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
ISBN: 9780006383482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism. The need to understand it has never been greater, and Karen Armstrong attempts to do so in this text.
One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism. The need to understand it has never been greater, and Karen Armstro...
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
ISBN: 9780061155772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion Muhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam. Countering those who dismiss Islam as fanatical and violent, Armstrong offers a clear, accessible, and balanced portrait of the central figure of one of the world's great religions. The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion Muhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion th... |
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The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
ISBN: 9780525431923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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A History of God
ISBN: 9780099273677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. This account of the evolution of belief examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of One God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders.
The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggl...
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The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
ISBN: 9780345391698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an overwhelming force in every major world religion. Why? This is the fascinating, disturbing question that bestselling author Karen Armstrong addresses in her brilliant new book The Battle for God. Writing with the broad perspective and deep understanding of human spirituality that won huge audiences for A History of God, Armstrong illuminates the spread of militant piety as a phenomenon peculiar to our moment in history.
Contrary to popular belief, fundamentalism is not a throwback to some... In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an overwhelming force in every major world religion. Wh...
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Krótka historia mitu
ISBN: 9788365680945 / Polski / broszurowa / 2021 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Droga brytyjskiej religioznawczyni Karen Armstrong (ur. 1944) do światowej sławy miała szczególny, a nawet dramatyczny przebieg. Katoliczka irlandzkiego pochodzenia, w wieku 18 lat została mniszką i będąc w zakonie, podjęła studia na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim. Jeszcze w trakcie studiów opuściła klasztor, a w pierwszej swojej książce (1982) opisała traumatyczne przeżycia z pobytu w nim. Również kariera akademicka zakończyła się niepowodzeniem, ponieważ londyński uniwersytet odrzucił jej doktorat o Tennysonie. Wykonując zlecenie dla telewizji, odbyła w 1984 roku...
Droga brytyjskiej religioznawczyni Karen Armstrong (ur. 1944) do światowej sławy miała szczególny, a nawet dramatyczny przebieg. Katoliczka irland...
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Islam
ISBN: 9781842125830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. One of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion.
One of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion.
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
ISBN: 9780385721271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating. Her deep solitude and a terrifying illness diagnosed only years later as epilepsy marked her forever as an outsider. In her own mind she was a complete...
Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. In 1962, at age ...
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Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world
ISBN: 9781529114799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Budda. Portret człowieka przebudzonego
ISBN: 9788381435703 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Karen Armstrong, autorka bestsellerów poświęconych historii rozmaitych religii, w Buddzie opisuje postać, której myśli po 2500 latach wciąż poruszają świat.Wielu zna Buddę tylko jako zażywnego, pogodnego mężczyznę z jego ikonicznych wizerunków. Ale kim był naprawdę i w jakim świecie przyszło mu żyć? Co zdołał osiągnąć w ciągu osiemdziesięciu lat, które zrodziły jedną z największych religii świata? Autorka odpowiada na te i wiele innych pytań we wciągającej biografii. Łącząc ze sobą historię, filozofię, kulturę i mitologię, pokazuje fascynujący...
Karen Armstrong, autorka bestsellerów poświęconych historii rozmaitych religii, w Buddzie opisuje postać, której myśli po 2500 latach wciąż po...
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The Bible: The Biography
ISBN: 9781782396406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Bible is a groundbreaking explanation and interpretation of the single most influential text of all time, by the world's foremost religious historian. 'The best sort of popularizing: there is no sacrifice of integrity and no dumbing down.' Edward Norman, Literary Review
The Bible is a groundbreaking explanation and interpretation of the single most influential text of all time, by the world's foremost religious histor...
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Islam: A Short History
ISBN: 9780812966183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing about the subject, Karen Armstrong s short history demonstrates that the world s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest."
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism...
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The Spiral Staircase
ISBN: 9780007122295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion.
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion.
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Buddha
ISBN: 9780143034360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2,500 years after his death.
Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest... With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (The ...
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Religion: Vintage Minis
ISBN: 9781784875695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. ‘Because ‘God’ is infinite, nobody can have the last word.’
What is this thing, religion, which has supposedly been the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is ‘God’ and do we need ‘Him’ in our modern world? Karen Armstrong, bestselling author and one of the world’s leading writers on religious affairs, has a refreshing and startling way of looking again at these questions. God is not a being to be ‘believed in’ as a child believes in Santa Claus; religion is not a story to be proven true or false, but a discipline akin to music or art that answers a... ‘Because ‘God’ is infinite, nobody can have the last word.’
What is this thing, religion, which has supposedly been the cause of bloo... |
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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
ISBN: 9780307742889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this important and thought-provoking work, Karen Armstrong one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world provides an impassioned and practical guide to helping us make the world a more compassionate place. In this important and thought-provoking work, Karen Armstrong one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world provide... |
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