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Religion: Vintage Minis
ISBN: 9781784875695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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A History of God
ISBN: 9780099273677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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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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Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world
ISBN: 9781529114799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Lives: Buddha
ISBN: 9780753813409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Buddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha revolutionized the religious ideas of his time to advocate a new way of living. All that is known about him comes from a collection of ancient writings that fuse history, biography and myth. Karen Armstrong distils from these the key events of Buddha's life: his birth as Siddhartha Gotama in the 5th century BC and his abandonment of his wife and son; his attainment of enlightenment under the Banyan tree; his political influence; the divisions among his followers; and his serene death. Armstrong also...
Buddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha revolutionized the religious ideas of his time to advocate a...
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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
ISBN: 9780345384560 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of... "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
ISBN: 9781843540564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. This work examines this phenomenal period and the connections between a disparate group of philosophers, mystics and theologians.
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundame...
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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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Broken For You
ISBN: 9781519411174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Even before her birth, Karen Armstrong faced crippling adversities-one that left her on the edge of death throughout her entire upbringing. Unwanted by a young prostitute mother, inadequately raised and abused at the hands of an relentless aunt, who's schizophrenia and multiple personalities left Karen lucky to be alive. Karen chronicles a life of molestation, rape, abuse, and moving in and out of girl shelters and foster homes. As a high school drop-out, homelessness, low self-esteem, and continued promiscuity plagued her young adult years. BROKEN FOR YOU is a raw look at one woman's journey...
Even before her birth, Karen Armstrong faced crippling adversities-one that left her on the edge of death throughout her entire upbringing. Unwanted b...
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The Case for God
ISBN: 9780307389800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion... A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the ...
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A Short History Of Myth
ISBN: 9781782118909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A 'visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making' (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God
A 'visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making' (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God
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The Lost Art of Scripture
ISBN: 9781784705329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the BibleIn our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division.
'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the Bible...
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Angel Eyes: Releasing Fears and Following Your Soul Path
ISBN: 9781638148708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis
ISBN: 9780099555476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'In the Beginning' offers a compelling introduction to Genesis, with the NRSV version of the text itself published for ease of reference. Armstrong analyses the human relationships depicted, showing Genesis to be more about separation than sin.
'In the Beginning' offers a compelling introduction to Genesis, with the NRSV version of the text itself published for ease of reference. Armstrong an...
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Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
ISBN: 9780312340957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life, and a vivid, moving account of the spiritual coming age of one of our most loved and respected interpreters of religious. Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the boo... |
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Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet
ISBN: 9781842126080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis
ISBN: 9780345406040 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS."
--A. N. Wilson As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature--the Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; the sacrifice of Isaac. Yet the meaning of Genesis remains enigmatic. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly acclaimed bestseller A History of God, brilliantly illuminates the mysteries and profundities of this mystifying work. "A lyrical chronicle of one woman's wrestling with Genesis that can serve as a guide to others .... "KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS."
--A. N. Wilson As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some ... |
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
ISBN: 9780099564980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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Visions of God: Four Medieval Mystics and Their Writings
ISBN: 9780553351996 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, writes Karen Armstrong, like "the astronauts of our own day. They broke into a new religion, blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self, a trail far from the beaten pilgrimage paths of Chaucer and Langland." Mysticism is a spiritual mystery shared in some form by all faiths; it has a supernatural quality that extends beyond the given boundaries of religious creed and may be experienced by any lay person. The thrilling intensity of a mystical experience, as represented in this volume by the writings of four mystics of the...
The mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, writes Karen Armstrong, like "the astronauts of our own day. They broke into a new religion,...
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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. 10-14 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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