Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

People don't read the Quran, they recite it. And so reading the Bible or reading the Karen Armstrong, the former nun, who's become our most important interpreter of religion.

I speak with her about her new book, The Lost Art of Scripture.

So it's a trauma for him, and that's what then drives his quest for living space in the east.

He says we need space like the Americans have.

A new biography brings fresh revelations about Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

What it means in our current era of nationalism.

I speak with the author Brendan Sims.

And they use their first order network, and if those first order networks are white and male, well then how do you find

trusted people? Taking on structural discrimination in corporate America, a Hari

Trinovasan sits down with the president of StubHub, Sukinda St. Cassidy. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. We live in

irreligious times so often defined nonetheless by religion.

In the United States, Pew research estimates that the number of Americans who identify as

Christians has declined by 12 percentage points in the

past decade alone to about 65 percent and yet religion has an incredible impact

on our lives from from the American evangelical movement and its role in politics,

to the rise of militant groups like ISIS.

Enter Karen Armstrong, the religious scholar is herself a former Catholic nun who left the fold.

She rose to popular prominence after 9-11, when she was able to do what few others would or could, that is explain Islam to an angry

and terrified West. Her new book is called The Lost Art of Scripture,

rescuing the sacred texts, and I've been speaking to her about her amazing life story and how she's

traveled from religious nun to secular scripture whisper.

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