Just after finishing karen armstrongs new book, i happened to hear a discussion on television about the latest outbreak of violence in the. Fields of blood by karen armstrong penguin random house canada. In 2008 she was awarded the ted prize and began working with ted on the charter for compassion, created online by. Karen armstrong traces the links between religion and violence from ancient egypt to modern jihad salley vickers mon 29 sep 2014 06. In her efforts to bring this about, armstrong is doing us a great service. In her latest comparative study, fields of blood, armstrong, one of todays leading historians of religion, and author of the case for god. Fields of blood can be thought of as a long, wideranging and overall quite effective rebuttal to the outlook expressed in that comment.
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