Karen Armstrong was born in Wildmoor, England, in 1944. She is one of the most provocative, original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world.
Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who left a British convent to pursue a degree in modern literature at Oxford. In 1982 she wrote a book about her seven years in the convent, Through the Narrow Gate, which angered and challenged Catholics worldwide. Her reflections on personal faith and religion (as a freelance monotheist) spark discussion, especially her take on fundamentalism.
In 2008 she won the TED Prize which enabled her to begin a collaborative work on the Charter for Compassion – which seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same, they all share the core principle of compassion and the Golden Rule. She is the author of more than 20 books, including the magisterial A History of God and Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World and the books Spiral Staircase and The Bible: A Biography.
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