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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.
1993
2011
2005
2006
1983
2001
Religion and the History of Violence
2014
The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
1988
A New Interpretation of Genesis
1996
A Short History
2000
2018
One City, Three Faiths
1996
A Biography of the Prophet
1991
A Prophet for Our Time
2006
Vintage Minis
2019
Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
2022
The Apostle We Love to Hate
2015
2000
A Biography
2007
2001
Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity
1983
1995
Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West
1986
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
2006
Rescuing the Sacred Texts
2019
2005
My Climb Out of Darkness
2004
1981
2010
Four Medieval Mystics and Their Writings
1994