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| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** Karen Armstrong makes reading the Bible a smooth and liberating experience. The brilliance of Armstrong's analysis of Genesis lies in her ability to draw together the story, the contemporaneous situations of the characters and the writers, and the relevance of themes amid multifarious ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the world's fastest growing faith; more than three-quarters of the world's refugees are Islamic; it has produced government by authoritarian monarchies in Saudi Arabia and ultra- republicans in Iran. Whether we are reading about civil war ... [selengkapnya]
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| 17344. | 
| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** The picture of Islam as a violent, backward, and insular tradition should be laid to rest, says Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of Muhammad and A History of God. Delving deep into Islamic history, Armstrong sketches the arc of a story that begins with the stirring of revelation ... [selengkapnya]
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| 17345. | 
| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** The city of Jerusalem stands as a religious crossroads unlike any place in history. As such, it possesses a volatile chemistry that--as we are made painfully through news reports and television--explodes on a regular basis. Karen Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun who teaches Judaism and is an ... [selengkapnya]
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| 17346. | 
| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is ... [selengkapnya]
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| 17347. | 
| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** Karen Armstrong adalah penulis yang telah menghasilkan karya-karya gemilang tentang berbagai tradisi agama. Dalam setiap tulisannya, dia menampakkan kepiawaiannya menampilkan kajian yang rumit menjadi bahasan yang memikat dan mudah dimengerti.
Penulis yang bermukim di Inggris itu kini ... [selengkapnya]
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| | Kisah Detail Perang Salib, Akar Pemicunya, dan Dampaknya Terhadap Zaman Sekarang oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** Ketika Paus Urban II menyerukan Perang Salib di tahun 1095 untuk merebut kota suci
Yerusalem dari kaum muslim, mungkin sama sekali tidak terbayang betapa rangkaian peristiwa tragis itu akan menorehkan luka yang begitu perih dan pengaruh yang begitu luas. Kaum Kristen Eropa mula-mula memang kurang ... [selengkapnya]
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| 17349. | 
| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print *** About 40 years ago popular opinion assumed that religion would become a weaker force and people would certainly become less zealous as the world became more modern and morals more relaxed. But the opposite has proven true, according to theologian and author Karen Armstrong (A History of ... [selengkapnya]
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| | oleh Karen Armstrong *** Out of Print ***
As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book, translated into over two thousand languages, and the world’s best selling book, year after year. But the ... [selengkapnya] |
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