Автор: Armstrong Karen Название: Religion ISBN: 1784875694 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784875695 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 659.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: `Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word`What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? Selected from A Case for God, Fields of Blood and The Lost Art of Scripture VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.
From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought. In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have endured to the present day--development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Armstrong, one of our most prominent religious scholars, examines how these traditions began in response to the violence of their time. Studying figures as diverse as the Buddha and Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah, Armstrong reveals how these still enduring philosophies can help address our contemporary problems.
Описание: The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. A controversial, extraordinary story of worship and war, A History of God confronts the most fundamental fact - or fiction - of our lives.
Автор: Armstrong, Karen Название: Buddha ISBN: 0753813408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753813409 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker. `Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world` GUARDIAN
Автор: Armstrong, Karen Название: Short history of myth ISBN: 178211890X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782118909 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: от 1484.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: A `visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making` (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God
Автор: Armstrong, Karen Название: The Lost Art of Scripture ISBN: 1847924328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847924322 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. So what value, if any, can scripture hold for us today? And if our world no longer seems compatible with scripture, is it perhaps because its original purpose has become lost?
Today we see the Quran being used by some to justify war and terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective views.
They are believed to be divinely ordained; they are claimed to contain eternal truths.
But as Karen Armstrong, a world authority on religious affairs, shows in this fascinating journey through millennia of history, this narrow reading of scripture is a relatively recent phenomenon. For hundreds of years these texts were instead viewed as spiritual tools: scripture was a means for the individual to connect with the divine, to transcend their physical existence, and to experience a higher level of consciousness. Holy texts were seen as fluid and adaptable, rather than a set of binding archaic rules or a 'truth' that has to be 'believed'.
Armstrong argues that only by rediscovering an open engagement with their holy texts will the world's religions be able to curtail arrogance, intolerance and violence.
And if scripture is used to engage with the world in more meaningful and compassionate ways, we will find that it still has a great deal to teach us.
Автор: Karen Armstrong Название: History of Jerusalem, A ISBN: 0002558513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780002558518 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2639.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world. Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac, the place of the crucifixion of Christ and the rock from which the prophet Muhammed ascended to heaven, Jerusalem has been celebrated and revered for centuries by Jews, Christians and Muslims. Such is the symbolic power of this ancient city that its future status poses a major obstacle to a comprehensive regional peace in the Middle East. This work traces the turbulent history of Jerusalem from the prehistoric era, the Biblical period, Jerusalem under the Byzantines, Arabs, Ottomans, British, Jordanians and since, 1967, the Israelis. It examines its political and cultural role through history, its personalities, art, architecture and the conflicts which have beset it for more than 2000 years.
Автор: Karen Armstrong Название: Spiral Staircase, The ISBN: 0007122292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007122295 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world`s great commentators on religion.
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