Karen Armstrong

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).

Monografije

• Through the Narrow Gate (1981), New York: St Martin's Press, ISBN 9780312803834
• The First Christian: Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity (1983), London: Pan, ISBN 9780330281614
• Beginning the World (1983), New York: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 9780312071813
• Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience (1985), Harmondsworth; New York: Viking, ISBN 9780670808786
• The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West (1986), Garden City: Anchor Press, ISBN 9780385240789
• Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today's World (1988), London: Macmillan, ISBN 9780333445440
• Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet (1991), London: Victor Gollancz, ISBN 9780575062443
• The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century (1991), London: Kyle Cathie, ISBN 9781856260237
• The End of Silence: Women and the Priesthood (1993), London: Fourth Estate, ISBN 9781857021455
• A History of God (1993), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780679426004
• Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (1996), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780679435969
• In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis (1996), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780679450894
• Islam: A Short History (2000), New York: Modern Library, ISBN 9780679640400
• The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2000), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780679435976
• Buddha (2001), New York: Viking, ISBN 9780670891931
• Faith After 11 September (2002), Maastricht: Studium Generale Maastricht, ISBN 9789080719118
• The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004), New York; Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780375413186
• A Short History of Myth (2005), Edinburgh; New York: Canongate, ISBN 9781841956442
• Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time (2006), New York: Atlas Books/HarperCollins, ISBN 9780060598976
• The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (2006), ISBN 9780375413179
• The Bible: A Biography (2007), New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, ISBN 9780871139696
• The Case for God (2009), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780307269188
• Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (2010), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780307595591
• A Letter to Pakistan (2011), New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199063307
• Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (2014), London: The Bodley Head, ISBN 9781847921864
• St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate (2015), Boston: New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 9780544617391

• Karen Armstrong, Encyclopædia Britannica (en)
• Karen Armstrong Arhivirano 2016-02-08 na Wayback Machine-u, Charter for Compassion (en)
• Karen Armstrong na sajtu IMDb