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From Catholic nun to respected author on the world's religions
Putting an unhappy life in a convent behind her gave Karen Armstrong the latitude to see value in other faiths
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Historian Karen Armstrong, who is based in London, was in Singapore last week to speak at the first International Conference on Cohesive Societies.
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At 17, Ms Karen Armstrong defied her parents to become a Catholic nun.
The church sent her to Oxford University, where she studied literature as she was meant to contribute to the teaching ministry. But all that thinking put her at odds with the demands of life in the convent, which required her to be obedient and silent most of the time.
