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Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion
Karen Armstrong is one of the most provocative, original thinkers onthe role of religion in the modern world. Armstrong is a former RomanCatholic nun who left a British convent to pursue a degree in modernliterature at Oxford. In 1982 she wrote a book about her seven years inthe convent, Through the Narrow Gate, that angered and challengedCatholics worldwide; her recent book The Spiral Staircase discusses hersubsequent spiritual awakening after leaving the convent, when shebegan to develop her iconoclastic take on the great monotheisticreligions.
She has written more than 20 books around theideas of what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, andaround their effect on world events, including the magisterial AHistory of God and Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’sWorld. Her latest book is The Bible: A Biography. Her meditations onpersonal faith and religion (she calls herself a freelance monotheist)spark discussion — especially her take on fundamentalism, which shesees in a historical context, as an outgrowth of modern culture.
In the post-9/11 world, she is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding.
More at Armstrong's website
Producer: Priscilla Cohen, Theresa "Sparky" Pomeroy
As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity-- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact.People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help makereligion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help herbuild a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule asthe central global religious doctrine.
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Join the world at www.charterforcompassion.org to write the Charter for Compassion.
The Charter brings together the voices of people from all religions. It seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same, they all share the core principle of compassion and the Golden Rule.
The Charter will change the tenor of the conversation around religion. It will be a clarion call to the world.
Blessings
Dan
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Categories: Spiritual Awarenss/ Healing, Religions, Wholistic Healing
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