Name: The Spiral Staircase
ISBN: 9780007372720

Karen Armstrong

A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world’s great commentators on religion.

The Spiral Staircase

The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.

My Climb Out of Darkness

rumbledethumps

A path from cloistered nun to best-selling author, this is a spiritual memoir that traces Armstrong's journey through faith, into theology, and finally into her own sort of religious practice. It is in line with many of her other books, and also elucidates much of her other work.

The Spiral Staircase

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