The Lost Art of Scripture
By Karen Armstrong
Bodley Head, 560pp, £25/$29.95
Karen Armstrong is well known for her writings on comparative religion and for her long-held hope that a better understanding of the spiritual side of human nature will help to bring about a more peaceful and compassionate world. This work, which brings together all her interests in the religious literature of the different world civilisations, will be of interest to those keen to explore the richly varied texts she analyses in all their beauty and considerable literary merit.
