Through the Narrow Gate - A Nun’s Story

Name: Through the Narrow Gate
Price: 6.99 EUR
Author: Karen Armstrong
ISBN: 9780007382880

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Karen Armstrong

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Paru le : 30/01/2014

Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960's. With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes... > Lire la suite

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Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960's. With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision, at the age of seventeen, to devote her life to God as a nun. yet once she embarked upon her spiritual training, she encountered a frightening and oppressive world, fossilized by tradition, which moulded, isolated and pushed her to the limit of what she could endure.

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Date de parution : 30/01/2014
Editeur : Flamingo
ISBN : 978-0-00-738288-0
EAN : 9780007382880
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 304 pages

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Biographie de Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong was born in Worcestershire. After becoming a nun in the 1960s, she left her order and lectured in literature at London University before becoming a full time writer, broadcaster and international adviser on religious and political affairs. She has addressed US Congress, the UN and Canadian parliament on Islam and fundamentalism. Among her other books is the bestselling 'History of God'.