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Like all beloved historians, armstrong entertains us with deft storytelling, astounding research, and makes us feel a greater appreciation for the present because we better understand our past. Fundamentalism in judaism, christianity and islam is a book by author karen armstrong published in 2000 by knopfharpercollins which the new york times described as one of the most penetrating, readable, and prescient accounts to date of the rise of the fundamentalist movements in judaism, christianity, and islam. She attended st annes college, oxford, while in the convent and majored in english. Rather, we learn that the definition of god is constantly being repeated, altered, discarded.
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