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Stairway to Heaven

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Friday, December 24, 2004

After she left a convent in disillusionment in 1969, Karen Armstrong found society had changed immeasurably during her seven-year absence. Armstrong continued to find life unsatisfying until she began to seriously contemplate the root of Abrahamic religions.

That American Religion

Roy Anker professor of English Literature at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and author, Catching Light: Looking for God in Film (Eerdmans Press, forthcoming Summer 2004) and Self-Help and Popular Religion in Modern American Culture : An Interpretive Guide (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999) explains the link between Who Moved ...

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Stairway to Heaven

Karen Armstrong author, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness (Knopf, 2004)
» Random House

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Kelefa Sanneh Pop critic for The New York Times and contributing editor at Transition, an international review of race and culture on rock purists drawing a line in the sand
» New York Times

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Open Phones listeners call in to discuss what they hate about the holiday season

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