More critical acclaim for A History of God
“Highly readable and ought to be read.… Karen Armstrong has read widely, has missed nothing, and gives us as solid a purview of the God of the past as it would be possible to find in a book.”
—Anthony Burgess
The Observer
“She refreshes the understanding of what one knows, and provides a clear introduction to the unfamiliar … ‘Yearning,’ said Augustine, ‘makes the heart deep.’ That is the theme which runs through this lucid book, and the note of hope on which it ends.”
—Robert Runcie
Former Archbishop of Canterbury
“An enormously intellectually challenging book. A fascinating way of approaching the subject.”
—Rabbi Julia Neuberger
“Magisterial and brilliant … An extraordinary survey, [a] superb kaleidoscopic history of religion … thorough, intelligent, and highly readable.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Besides providing a great deal of religious history, [Armstrong] discusses the various philosophers, mystics, and reformers associated with these religions … An excellent and informative book.”
—Library Journal
“This searching, profound comparative history … fearlessly illuminates the sociopolitical ground in which religious ideas take root, blossom and mutate.”
—Publishers Weekly
Also by Karen Armstrong
Through the Narrow Gate
Beginning the World
The First Christian: St. Paul’s Impact on Christianity
Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience
The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity’s Creation of the Sex War in the West
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis
Islam: A Short History
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
Buddha
A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1993 by Karen Armstrong
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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd., London, in 1993. First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1993.
This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously publish
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