Dr. Karen Armstrong is a British author, interested in comparing religions and Islam. She has written many books on religious issues, including: The History of God, The Battle of God, Holy War, Islam: A Brief History, The Great Transformation, and others. She will soon publish another book in English under the title: Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. I also wrote two stories: Through the Narrow Gate, and the Spiral Staircase. Her works have been translated into more than fifty languages.
Dr. Karen addressed members of the US Congress on three occasions, lectured policy makers in the US State Department and the Ministry of Defense, participated in the World Economic Forum, is the ambassador of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, and gives many lectures in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and Indonesia.
In 2007, the Egyptian government awarded her a medal in appreciation of her efforts in serving Islam, under the auspices of Al-Azhar, and she is the first foreigner to receive this medal. She won the Four Freedoms Medal for Freedom of Worship from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and the Dr. Leopold Lukas Award at the University of Tübingen in 2009. In 2013, she was the first to receive the Nayef Al-Roudhan Award from the British Academy in recognition of her efforts in developing relations between cultures of the world. The Gandhi/King/Ikeda Award for Community Builders in Atlanta Commemoration in 2014. She is Curator of the British Museum and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Letters.
In February 2008, she received a TED Prize for her vision of the Charter for Compassion (www.charterforcompassion.org) prepared by a group of distinguished thinkers from across the six world faiths as a collaborative effort to restore compassionate thinking and compassion to the moral and political life. The Charter of Compassion is being implemented creatively and realistically in a number of countries, cities, schools and religious communities around the world.
12 passos para uma vida de compaixão pdf by Karen Armstrong
Um dos pensadores mais originais sobre o papel da religião no mundo moderno – autor de livros tão aclamados como A History of God, Islam, and Buddha – agora nos dá um livro apaixonado e prático que pode nos ajudar a tornar o mundo mais compassivo. place.Karen Armstrong acredita que, embora a compaixão seja intrínseca a todos os seres humanos, cada um de nós precisa trabalhar diligentemente para cultivar e expandir nossa capacidade de compaixão. Aqui, neste livro direto, pensativo e instigante, ela estabelece um programa que pode nos levar a uma vida mais compassiva. Os doze passos que Armstrong sugere começam com “Aprenda sobre a compaixão” e terminam com “Ame seus inimigos”. No meio disso, ela assume “compaixão por si mesmo”, atenção plena, sofrimento, alegria solidária, os limites do nosso conhecimento dos outros e “preocupação por todos”. Ela sugere maneiras concretas de aumentar nossa compaixão e colocá-la em ação em nossas vidas cotidianas e fornece, também, uma lista de leitura para nos encorajar a “ouvir as narrativas uns dos outros”. Por toda parte, Armstrong deixa claro que uma vida compassiva não é apenas uma questão de coração ou mente, mas uma mistura deliberada e muitas vezes que altera a vida dos dois.