Who is Karen Armstrong?
Karen Armstrong was born on 14 November 1944 in England to parents of Irish heritage. She is a former nun in the Society of the Holy Child Jesus who has been publishing books on religion and her personal experiences with the church since the early 1980’s. She has published books on Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism. Because of the readability of her texts, some scholars and literary critics credit her with bringing books on religious studies to the common reader. In 2004, she published The Spiral Staircase, which chronicles her experiences as a young women with undiagnosed epilepsy. The order of the Society of the Holy Child of Jesus is a teaching order. Once Armstrong graduated through certain levels within the order, she was sent to Oxford University to continue her studies. She studied English at Oxford’s St. Anne’s College. It was during her time at Oxford that Karen Armstrong left the order of the Holy Child of Jesus. After finishing her degree at St. Anne’s, she went on
