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From one of today's foremost commentators on religious affairs and the author of A History of God comes an insightful chronicle of the fundamentalist form of religion and the forces of modernism that have, paradoxically, brought it into existence. Read by the author. Book available.

Hardcover:

9780679435976 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity

Paperback:

9780345391698 | Ballantine Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780060591878 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694523047 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From one of today's foremost commentators on religious affairs and the author of A History of God comes an insightful chronicle of the fundamentalist form of religion and the forces of modernism that have, paradoxically, brought it into existence.

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Examines the Bible's complex history, the social and political environment in which oral history became written scripture, how the various books were collected into a single volume, and its acceptance as Christianity's sacred text.

Hardcover:

9780871139696, titled "The Bible: A Biography" | Atlantic Monthly Pr, November 10, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Examines the Bible's complex history, the social and political environment in which oral history became written scripture, how the various books were collected into a single volume, and its acceptance as Christianity's sacred text.

Paperback:

9780802143846, titled "The Bible: A Biography" | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 2008), cover price $14.95 | also contains The Bible: A Biography, The Bible: A Biography

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A work made up of sixty-six 'books' and divided into two Testaments, the Bible has been transformed by its various translations into a single work. This work presents an account, which discusses the conception, gestation, life and afterlife of the collection of 'books' to analyse how the scripture was collected into one work.

Hardcover:

9781843543961 | Atlantic Books, July 12, 2007, cover price $30.45 | About this edition: A work made up of sixty-six 'books' and divided into two Testaments, the Bible has been transformed by its various translations into a single work.

Paperback:

9781594152634 | Large print edition (Christian Large Print, November 18, 2008), cover price $17.95
9781843543978 | Atlantic Books, March 1, 2008, cover price $16.75

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Paperback:

9781519411174 | 2 lrg edition (Createspace Independent Pub, November 17, 2014), cover price $11.00

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Paperback:

9788439709039 | Random House Mondadori, May 30, 2002, cover price $16.95

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A portrait of the Buddha explores his identities both as an archetypal religious icon and as a man, chronicling his journey from his decision to leave a life of ease and power to his attainment of spiritual enlightenment.

Hardcover:

9780786234288 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $28.95
9780670891931 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the Buddha explores his identities both as an archetypal religious icon and as a man, chronicling his journey from his decision to leave a life of ease and power to his attainment of spiritual enlightenment.

Paperback:

9780143034360 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the Buddha explores his identities both as an archetypal religious icon and as a man, chronicling his journey from his decision to leave a life of ease and power to his attainment of spiritual enlightenment.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736668149 | Abridged edition (Books on Tape, April 1, 2001), cover price $24.95

Prebinding:

9781439568682 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $23.00

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Hardcover:

9781841958743 | Box edition (Canongate Books Ltd, January 30, 2007), cover price $69.95

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Hardcover:

9781410421531 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 18, 2009), cover price $32.95
9780307269188 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 22, 2009, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780307389800 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, September 7, 2010), cover price $17.95 | also contains The Case for God
9780307739926 | Random House, July 1, 2010, cover price $13.00 | also contains The Case for God

Miscellaneous:

9780307272928 | Anchor Books, September 22, 2009, cover price $16.95 | also contains The Case for God

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Product Description: "Does the face of God change? Years ago I would have said, 'No.' Countless hymns, passage of Scripture and confessions of faith assert or imply the changelessness of God. To take issue with traditions that are centuries, if not millennia old, seemed to be daunting and misguided...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Karen Armstrong (editor) and Frederick W. Schmidt (editor)

Paperback:

9780819218018 | Morehouse Pub Co, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "Does the face of God change?

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Paperback:

9789707772045 | Italian edition edition (Oceano De Mexico, September 7, 2006), cover price $20.00

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Hardcover:

9781410474124 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 19, 2014), cover price $32.99
9780307957047 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 28, 2014, cover price $30.00
9780321125613, titled "The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers" | 6 updated edition (Longman Pub Group, July 1, 2002), cover price $56.00 | also contains Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers

Paperback:

9780307946966 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, September 15, 2015), cover price $16.95 | also contains Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

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Product Description: Women have a need for personal safety. They want to know how to prevent and avoid danger and, if something does happen, they want to know how to react. This book carries a powerful message for women about their potential for strength and confidence, and offers a simple, strategic approach to increase safety, including simple movements and key information...read more

Paperback:

9781863736589 | Allen & Unwin, June 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Women have a need for personal safety.

Product Description: Women have a need for personal safety. They want to know how to prevent and avoid danger and, if something does happen, they want to know how to react. This book carries a powerful message for women about their potential for strength and confidence, and offers a simple, strategic approach to increase safety, including simple movements and key information...read more

Paperback:

9780788166495 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1994, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Women have a need for personal safety.

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Product Description: Karen Armstrong The Future of God Learn how the mystical God of our past reflects the God of our future – a vibrant, living presence available to all of us – on The Future of God. Karen Armstrong’s international bestseller, A History of God, has given us a window to the riches of monotheism as practiced through the ages by Jews, Christians, and Muslims...read more

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781564553072 | Sounds True, February 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Karen Armstrong The Future of God Learn how the mystical God of our past reflects the God of our future – a vibrant, living presence available to all of us – on The Future of God.

Hardcover:

9780819218513 | Vhs edition (Morehouse Pub Co, January 30, 2013), cover price $20.00

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Looks at the influence of Christianity on women's place in modern society, and argues that conventional histories of Christianity have left out women's contributions

Hardcover:

9780385240789 | Anchor Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Looks at the influence of Christianity on women's place in modern society, argues that conventional histories of Christianity have left out women's contributions, and discusses current attitudes towards women

Paperback:

9780385240796, titled "The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Looks at the influence of Christianity on women's place in modern society, and argues that conventional histories of Christianity have left out women's contributions

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The critically acclaimed, best-selling author of A History of God examines the origins and history of the religious traditions of the world during the ninth century B.C.E. Axial Age in four distinct regions of the world--Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Simultaneous.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739325322 | Abridged edition (Random House, March 28, 2006), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Examines the origins of the religious traditions of the world during the ninth century B.

Traces the history of Jerusalem from the prehistoric era and Biblical period through its successive conquest and rule by Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottomans, and British, as well as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflicts, providing useful information on the culture, arts, and architecture of the city held sacred by all three monotheistic religions.

Paperback:

9788449317521 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 15, 2005), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of Jerusalem from the prehistoric era and Biblical period through its successive conquest and rule by Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottomans, and British, as well as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflicts, providing useful information on the culture, arts, and architecture of the city held sacred by all three monotheistic religions.

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780060743352 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, August 13, 2014), cover price $9.99

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One of Britain's leading religious scholars, the author of Through the Narrow Gate explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present day. Read by Karen Armstrong. Book available.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780060591854 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God--from Abraham to the present day--in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

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Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present

Hardcover:

9780517223123, titled "A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" | Gramercy, March 1, 2004, cover price $9.99
9780679426004, titled "A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present

Paperback:

9780345384560, titled "A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present day.
9789990105407, titled "A History of God: The 4000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity And Islam" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $0.02
9780756790882 | Diane Pub Co, September 30, 1993, cover price $22.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694515035, titled "A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God--from Abraham to the present day--in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Prebinding:

9780613647274 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $28.10 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present day.

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