Karen Armstrong

**Karen Andersen Armstrong** (Wildmoor, 14. 11. 1944. – ), engleska autorica knjiga na temu komparativne religije i međureligijskog dijaloga, široko priznata kao jedan od vodećih komentatora tih disciplina u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu.

## Biografija
Armstrong je rođena 1944. u engleskom naselju Wildmoor, u katoličkoj porodici irskog porijekla koja se nakon njenog rođenja preselila prvo u Bromsgrove, a zatim u Birmingham. Sa 17 godina ušla je u redovničku službu, no napustila ju je sedam godina kasnije za vrijeme studija engleske književnosti na Univerzitetu u Oxfordu. Akademsku karijeru započela je predavajući književnost na Univerzitetu u Londonu, a kasnije je predavala i na rabinskom Koledžu Leo Baeck. Tokom 1980-ih objavila je niz knjiga o kršćanstvu, dok od 1990-ih piše i o islamu, judaizmu i drugim religijama. Na njen opus snažan utjecaj imali su protestantski akademik Wilfred Cantwell Smith i katolički filozof Bernard Lonergan. Armstrong je dobitnica višestrukih nagrada i priznanja, uključujući počasne doktorate s Univerziteta Aston (2006), St Andrews (2011) i McGill (2014). Godine 2015. odlikovana je i Redom Britanskog Carstva (OBE).

## Opus
;Monografije
* *Through the Narrow Gate* (1981), New York: St Martin's Press, 
* *The First Christian: Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity* (1983), London: Pan, 
* *Beginning the World* (1983), New York: St. Martin's Press, 
* *Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience* (1985), Harmondsworth; New York: Viking, 
* *The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West* (1986), Garden City: Anchor Press, 
* *Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today's World* (1988), London: Macmillan, 
* *Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet* (1991), London: Victor Gollancz, 
* *The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century* (1991), London: Kyle Cathie, 
* *The End of Silence: Women and the Priesthood* (1993), London: Fourth Estate, 
* *A History of God* (1993), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
* *Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths* (1996), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
* *In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis* (1996), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
* *Islam: A Short History* (2000), New York: Modern Library, 
* *The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam* (2000), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
* *Buddha* (2001), New York: Viking, 
* *Faith After 11 September* (2002), Maastricht: Studium Generale Maastricht, 
* *The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness* (2004), New York; Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 
* *A Short History of Myth* (2005), Edinburgh; New York: Canongate, 
* *Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time* (2006), New York: Atlas Books/HarperCollins, 
* *The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions* (2006), 
* *The Bible: A Biography* (2007), New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 
* *The Case for God* (2009), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
* *Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life* (2010), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
* *A Letter to Pakistan* (2011), New York: Oxford University Press, 
* *Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence* (2014), London: The Bodley Head, 
* *St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate* (2015), Boston: New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 

## Vanjske veze
* Karen Armstrong, Encyclopædia Britannica 
* Karen Armstrong , Charter for Compassion 
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