Title: The Spiral Staircase
Subtitle: My Climb Out of Darkness
First published: 2004
Description: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
Subjects: Ex-nuns, Biography, Religion, Faith development, Christian biography, Ex-religieuses, Biographies, Godsdienstwetenschap, Nonnen, Biographies spirituelles, Depressies (psychiatrie), Epilepsie, Armstrong, Karen, 1944-, Faith, Religious life, Glaubensentwicklung, Identitätsentwicklung, Nuns, biography, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Women, biography, Great britain, biography
Places: Great Britain
People: Karen Armstrong (1944-), Karen Armstrong
LC classification: BX4668.3.A75 A3 2005