Karen Armstrong, a comparative religion specialist is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and Fields of Blood, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into 45 languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy’s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Trans cultural Understanding.
Books
A History of God
1993
The Great Transformation
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
2006
St. Paul
The Apostle We Love to Hate
2015
Fields of Blood
Religion and the History of Violence
2014
Through the Narrow Gate
1981
The Case for God
2001
Visions Of God
Four Medieval Mystics and Their Writings
1994
Muhammad
A Prophet for Our Time
2006
In the Beginning
A New Interpretation of Genesis
1996
The Bible
A Biography
2007
The Lost Art of Scripture
Rescuing the Sacred Texts
2019
The First Christian
Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity
1983
Buddha
2001
The Future of God
1995
Jerusalem
One City, Three Faiths
1996
A Short History of Myth / The Penelopiad / Weight / Dream Angus
2006
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
2004
Beginning the World
1983
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
2010
The Gospel According to Woman
Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West
1986
Religion
Vintage Minis
2019
Holy War
The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
1988
The Myths
2005
Islam
A Short History
2000
A Letter To Pakistan
2011
Sacred Nature
Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
2022
A Short History of Myth
2005
The Battle for God
2000
Muhammad
A Biography of the Prophet
1991
