karen armstrong

[verbicide]

Cool article in the Washington Post. Gotten via rimrunner

"People are always astonished when I tell them how religious Americans are," she says. She is very admiring of American religiosity, except for the religious right. "Like most fundamentalists, they have a pernicious, horrible, paranoid view of the 'other,' " she says. "It used to be that the Soviet Union was the enemy described in the book of Revelation that would bring about the last days. Now, they've switched to Islam. They had to regroup. But you can't equate true religion with hatred."

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[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

I love Karen Armstrong. Battle for G-d was so good.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that--or honestly, any of her stuff yet. I have A History of God and plan to read that soon. She seems very awesome.

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

It was part history, part religion, part psychology. Very cool. I read it really slowly, though - I can read through a fictional novel in a night or two (okay, depending on length), but that took me a month or so, reading a chapter or two each night. Too much information to take in all at once.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Actually--that's what I think I need to do with her, too. Like you, I can burn through a novel, but for something like that, I need to digest it slower.