Summary Of Anthropology By Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong starts her essay with a pessimistic survey of the modern world as it enters the second millennium. She talks about the churches are emptying and atheism and secular ideas that are becoming more prevalent in Europe. Then she talks about the rejection of the traditional ideas of God. She mainly talks about three main monotheistic religions. She argues that most of the writers and philosophers struggle to develop ideas that might replace the old religions. She also talk a wide-ranging survey of modern writing and philosophies,
She discusses and describes the ideas of approximately twenty authors and provides a suggested reading list of thirty-two books. Not only that her survey spans a large body of work. Such as Nietzsche to