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	Islam and the West - an interview with Karen Armstrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Armstrong believes that the Israeli occupation is responsible for the kind of violent resistance it meets from the Palestinians.
		Armstrong's Muhammad: a Biography of the Prophet has sold millions of copies since it appeared in 1996, and she has become used to accusations of being "an apologist for Islam", while not taking much notice of such rhetoric.
		Armstrong is currently also working on a history of the period from 800 BC to 200 AD when many great world faiths came into being.
	www.islamfortoday.com /karenarmstrong02.htm (2594 words)

	Cornell News: Karen Armstrong lecture
		Armstrong began by recounting her experiences as a young child in the Catholic church, where she had to memorize a very specific definition of God.
		Armstrong pointed out that people throughout history -- from Crusaders to suicide bombers -- have also used religion as "a rubber stamp" for condoning their actions, claiming that they are performed in the name of God.
		Armstrong, an expert on Christianity, Judaism and Islam, served as a nun in a British convent, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, from 1962 to 1967.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/April05/Armstrong_cover.fac.html (806 words)

	A Short History of Myth - Karen Armstrong
		What Armstrong does in her skid over the millennia is make comparisons, connections and contrasts in a way that cannot fail to enlighten the general reader.
		Armstrong's insistence on rituals being a key to making myths meaningful is, in fact, also a lament for the loss of ritual in the modern day (as becomes even more obvious later in the book).
		Throughout, Armstrong makes little of the fact that what has come down to us, even of relatively recent myth, is strongly coloured by the many lenses it has since been refracted through, and that there is often no way of knowing even what the original myth was and meant in its original context.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/religion/myths.htm (1667 words)

	Karen Armstrong: A Profile in Literary Diversity
		Karen Armstrong, a prolific writer, television broadcaster and prominent figure on the London media scene, came to the Middle East by a circuitous route that began when she took the vows of chastity and poverty at age 17 and entered a Roman Catholic convent as a novice nun in 1965.
		Karen Armstrong rightly points out that Muhammad was the only founder of a major religion whose life and times are fully recorded and available for authentic research.
		Karen Armstrong hopes that her biography Muhammad will help the West understand the religion of Islam, which unquestionably is spreading across the globe.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0293/9302038.htm (1380 words)

	Amazon.ca: Buddha: Books: Karen Armstrong,Kate Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karen Armstrong mines these early scriptures, as well as later biographies, then fleshes the story out with an explanation of the cultural landscape of the 6th century B.C., creating a deft blend of biography, history, philosophy, and mythology.
		Armstrong, in her intelligent and clarifying style, is quick to point out the Buddha's relevance to our own time of transition, struggle, and spiritual void in both his approach--which was based on skepticism and empiricism--and his teachings.
		Instead, Armstrong attempts to bolster her findings (which are largely based on the Pali Cannon written in the 1 century BC) by stating that the monks responsible for verbally passing down Buddha's teachings took great care to ensure accuracy.
	www.amazon.ca /Buddha-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0736668144 (2729 words)

	The New Humanities Reader - Link-O-Mat - Karen Armstrong
		Armstrong had left the convent and the Church in 1972, "wearied by religion" and "worn out by years of struggle" and had spent the intervening years pursuing a doctorate in literature and teaching at a girls' school.
		Although she was gratified by the success of her book, Armstrong has described the real turning point in her life as having occurred during a series of trips she made to Jerusalem beginning in 1982.
		Karen Armstrong defines fundamentalism as a "highly political spirituality, it is literal and intolerant in its vision." She does not, obviously, consider herself to be a fundamentalist.
	www.newhum.com /for_students/link_o_mat/armstrong.html (934 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Karen Armstrong at Lehigh; off to a conference
		Karen Armstrong was raised in Stourbridge, a small town in the industrial midlands region of England, not too far from Birmingham.
		Armstrong became a trusted and credible authority on the relations between different religious communities at a time when it seemed most commentators on television and in the print-media were only capable of a kind of high hysteria about the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism.
		Karen Armstrong’s a hero to me partly because she brought a dose of calm and sanity at a time when it was much needed in the U.S. and England, as well as many other places around the world.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/10/karen-armstrong-at-lehigh-off-to.html (1071 words)

	Karen Armstrong Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Karen Armstrong is the most provocative, original, and inclusive thinker on the role of religion in the modern world.
		Karen Armstrong presents a thorough and compelling account of the history of fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
		Armstrong issues a forceful challenge to those who hold the view that the West and Islam are civilizations set on a collision course.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/karenarmstrong.html (811 words)

	Amazon.com: The Battle for God: Books: Karen Armstrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Armstrong sensitively recognizes one of fundamentalism's great ironies: though they ostensibly seek to restore a displaced, mythical spiritual foundation, fundamentalists often re-establish that foundation using profoundly secular, pseudo-scientific means ("creation science" is a prime example).
		What Armstrong does with Fundamentalism is to stretch the focus of her study beyond all scope and boundary, to eventually indict all of religion, obscuring the distinction between religion generally, and FUNDAMENTALISM specifically.
		Armstrong suggests that a just and righteous segment of European and American society, termed "Scientific Rationalists" having possesion of moral clarity, have always borne silent witness to the abuses of ignorant and frightened religious fanatics as they wreak havoc upon the societies in Europe and America.
	www.amazon.com /Battle-God-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0345391691 (4233 words)

	The Modern Library \| Authors \| Karen Armstrong
		For years she was tagged the "runaway nun," the rebellious ex-Catholic with outspoken opinions about religion--comparing, for example, Pope John Paul II to a Muslim fundamentalist.
		Each, Armstrong writes, has developed the image of one Supreme Being who was first revealed to the prophet Abraham.
		Since her writing career took off, Armstrong's communion with God occurs in the library, where she spends up to three years researching her books, which are as densely packed with detail as her conversations.
	www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/karmstrong.html (1068 words)

	Speaking of Faith \| The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong - Reflections
		Karen Armstrong gave a thought-provoking glimpse of God and views held by different religions that were surprisingly similar, but this does not startle me. C.S. Lewis pointed this out some time ago.
		As Karen Armstrong would probably remind me, St. Paul said, "nothing can separate us from the Love of God." Not sin, and not anything that is done to us, especially not abuse at the hands of a boy who was living with an abuser.
		I relate to Karen Armstrong in her early days, being a rebel of all religions for it divided the human race and created horror in the history of human race.
	speakingoffaith.publicradio.org /reflection/2004/0318_armstrong_1.shtml (2164 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Spiral Staircase: Books: Karen Armstrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karen Armstrong speaks to the troubling years following her decision to leave the life of a Roman Catholic nun and join the secular world in 1969.
		On top of this angst, Armstrong spent years suffering from undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy, causing her to have frequent flout lapses in memory and disturbing hallucinations---crippling symptoms that her psychiatrist adamantly attributed to Armstrong's denial of her femininity and sexuality.
		Armstrong has a scholarly background and she certainly is a gifted writer but her academic training is in neither theology nor biblical studies.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Spiral-Staircase-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0007122292 (1774 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Karen Armstrong (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Salon.com calls Karen Armstrong "arguably the most lucid, wide-ranging and consistently interesting religion writer today." "Magisterial and brilliant," Kirkus tagged her 1993 breakthrough bestseller A History of God.
		In 1969, at the age of twenty-four, Karen Armstrong left the Roman Catholic convent she had entered as a teenager.
		Armstrong: Most of the secular press in the UK either ignored the book or was sort of sneering at it.
	www.powells.com.cob-web.org:8888 /authors/armstrong.html (3663 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
		Among Armstrong's chief reasons for leaving the convent was her daily difficulty with prayer and meditation: "I never had what seemed to be an encounter with anything supernatural, with a being that existed outside myself.
		Armstrong's study of Paul and his Jewish context is an intellectual breakthrough.
		Armstrong notes, "In deciding to write about God, I knew that I was setting off on a lonely path." So she puts her struggle with faith in the context of quest mythology: "[The hero] must venture into the darkness of the unknown, where there is no map and no clear route.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/spiral_staircase1.asp (1200 words)

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		Armstrong found employment as head of the English department at a girls' school in London, but in 1982 she left the school and devoted her energies to working on television documentaries.
		It is Armstrong's wont to paint a rosy, sanitized picture of Islam, while lamenting the allegedly negative influences of the United States and capitalism.
		Armstrong draws a parallel between conservative Christians and Muslim terrorists: "[T]he Christian right today has absorbed the endemic violence in American society: they oppose reform of the gun laws, for example, and support the death penalty.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=773 (837 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Karen Armstrong's Crisis of Faith (and Tennyson and T.S. Eliot)
		Armstrong first taught in a private high school for a few years, then started writing books and television series on religious issues.
		But Armstrong responds to their extreme directness and unmediated qualities, which are actually quite rare in Eliot's work (where one typically finds a great deal of dramatic tension and narratorial restraint).
		Armstrong's autobiography gave me a reminder of who I am and how the 'wasteland' is also not my choice.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/08/karen-armstrongs-crisis-of-faith-and.html (1529 words)

	Butterflies and Wheels Article
		Karen Armstrong has been described as “one of the world's most provocative and inclusive thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world”.
		Given that Armstrong is regularly described as a “respected scholar” and an “expert on Islam”, she must surely know of Khaldun and his sources, and must surely know how Mohammed himself conceived jihad primarily as an expansionist military endeavour.
		Armstrong must also be aware of the jihad campaigns of religious ‘cleansing’ throughout the Arab Peninsula, in accord with Mohammed’s death bed words.
	www.butterfliesandwheels.com /articleprint.php?num=202 (762 words)

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		For some reason, I see it everywhere, even though she is unsympathetic to Buddha's point of view and treats Buddhism as if it should be lifted up carefully with a pair of tongs.
		I don't know all the stuff she does, and wouldn't say I agree with all she says, but I do HOPE that what she says is the way things are.
		Karen says she has changed since her witty secular days.
	www.matthewdallman.com /2006/05/karen-armstrong.html (529 words)

	Kentucky Author Forum presents Karen Armstrong
		For years Armstrong was tagged the "runaway nun," the rebellious ex-Catholic with outspoken opinions about religion. Her life in a British convent is 30 years behind her.
		Armstrong's account of Buddha reveals him as both the archetypal religious icon and as a man who eschewed his noble caste in pursuit of peace in the midst of worldly suffering.
		Karen Armstrong will be the guest on "State of Affairs" on Oct. 20 to talk with host Julie Kredens from 1-2 p.m.
	kaf.louisville.edu /armstrong (1299 words)

	Armstrong
		Karen Armstrong is one of the most provocative, original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world.
		Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who left the convent to pursue a degree in modern literature from Oxford University.
		During 1983, Armstrong worked in the Middle East on a six-part TV series on the life and work of St. Paul, which was shown on Britain's Channel Four Television.
	www.westarinstitute.org /Fellows/Armstrong/armstrong.html (237 words)

	Amazon.fr : The History of God: Livres en anglais: Karen Armstrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for God.
		Armstrong, a British broadcaster, commentator on religious affairs and former Roman Catholic nun, argues that Judaism, Christianity and Islam each developed the idea of a personal God, which has helped believers to mature as full human beings.
		Karen Armstrong is in a unique position to discuss matters of interfaith history and connection.
	www.amazon.fr /History-God-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0099273675 (1261 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Karen Armstrong
		Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
		Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before—hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God.
		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...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=834 (896 words)

	Darwiniana » Karen Armstrong on Axial Age
		Armstrong is in over her head on this Axial notion of hers, and even a cursory glance at my eonic model shows the traps involved.
		ARMSTRONG: All over the world, people are struggling with these new conditions and have been forced to reassess their religious traditions, which were designed for a very different type of society.
		Karen Armstrong has written several books on religion and, culture, including the best-selling A History of God and The Battle for God, as well as lslam: A Short History and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet..
	darwiniana.com /2005/11/20/karen-armstrong-on-axial-age (4968 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong. 3.1.02 \| PBS
		ARMSTRONG: After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it.
		ARMSTRONG: The mystical branch of Islam, the Sufi movement, insisted that when you had encountered God, you were neither a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim.
		ARMSTRONG: Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_armstrong.html (2230 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Karen Armstrong's Fantasies About Islamic Terror by Robert Spencer
		Armstrong was astonished, mind you, not because this analysis is absurd, but because she was amazed to hear it from the bull-necked hawks she expected to find at such a conference.
		Armstrong continues with another common canard: “We rarely, if ever, called the IRA bombings ‘Catholic’ terrorism because we knew enough to realise that this was not essentially a religious campaign.
		Armstrong even goes to bat for the Wahhabis: “even though the narrow, sometimes bigoted vision of Wahhabism makes it a fruitful ground for extremism, the vast majority of Wahhabis do not commit acts of terror.” Obviously not, any more than the vast majority of Nazis actually worked in death camps.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18732 (1419 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Going beyond God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong says the afterlife is a "red herring," hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God.
		Karen Armstrong calls herself a "freelance monotheist." It's easy to understand her appeal in today's world of spiritual seekers.
		Armstrong dismissed the afterlife as insignificant, and drew some intriguing analogies: Just as there's good and bad sex and art, there's good and bad religion.
	www.salon.com /books/int/2006/05/30/armstrong (479 words)

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