Karen Armstrong

Advantages: Very good reading
Disadvantages: none

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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Thorough and broad-based
Disadvantages: Leans a bit too much toward the West

...Karen Armstrong is in a unique position to discuss matters of interfaith history and connection. A former Roman Catholic nun, she also has a background as a teacher at a Rabbinical college, and is also an honourary member of the Association of Muslim Social Sciences. Her background interest in matters religious goes back to her childhood, which she shares in the introduction to this volume, when she first experienced religion as being about fear, and then later learned the more wonderful sides. She freely confesses her difficulties with matters of faith and belief, often made deeper and more troubling the more she studied the history of religion (one reason some denominations do not trust seminary training is that they feel it brings about a crisis of faith). Despite her initial misgivings, she believed that humankind... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: It gives you detail about the book.
Disadvantages: It might be a little to detailed.

...I think Karen's witch is a very good book. I like it all. I especially like the bit when karen mistakes her for a mean nasty witch who flies around on a broom. The witch at the very end of the book holds a meeting but karen thinks it is a witch meeting. What will karen do the witch might put a nasty spell on her. I would probably give this book ten out of ten for star rating. The blurb is very clear and very detailed i would recomend this book to people ages seven to twelve.... Read review

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