The Battle for God pdf

凯伦·阿姆斯特朗博士是一位英国作家，对比较宗教和伊斯兰教很感兴趣。她写了许多关于宗教问题的书籍，包括：上帝的历史、上帝的战斗、圣战、伊斯兰教：简史、大转变、和别的。她很快将出版另一本英文书，标题为：血场：宗教与暴力史。我还写了两个故事：穿过窄门和螺旋楼梯。她的作品已被翻译成五十多种语言。 凯伦博士曾三次向美国国会议员发表演讲，为美国国务院和国防部的政策制定者讲课，参加世界经济论坛，是联合国不同文明联盟大使，并多次在美国发表演讲穆斯林国家，尤其是巴基斯坦、马来西亚、新加坡、土耳其和印度尼西亚。 2007 年，埃及政府授予她一枚勋章，以表彰她在爱资哈尔的赞助下为伊斯兰教服务所做的努力，她是第一位获得该勋章的外国人。 2009 年，她获得了富兰克林和埃莉诺·罗斯福研究所颁发的宗教自由四项自由奖章，以及 2009 年蒂宾根大学的 Leopold Lukas 博士奖。2013 年，她是第一个获得由英国学院表彰她在发展世界文化之间的关系方面所做的努力。2014 年亚特兰大纪念社区建设者甘地/金/池田奖。她是大英博物馆馆长和皇家文学院院士。 2008 年 2 月，她因对《慈悲宪章》(www.charterforcompassion.org) 的远见而获得 TED 奖，该奖项由来自世界六大信仰的一群杰出思想家编写，旨在将慈悲的思维和同情心恢复到道德上。和政治生活。慈悲宪章正在世界各地的许多国家、城市、学校和宗教团体中创造性地和现实地实施。

The Battle for God pdf 凯伦阿姆斯特朗

In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish.We see the West in the sixteenth century beginning to create an entirely new kind of civilization, which brought in its wake change in every aspect of life -- often painful and violent, even if liberating. Armstrong argues that one of the things that changed most was religion. People could no longer think about or experience the divine in the same way; they had to develop new forms of faith to fit their new circumstances. Armstrong characterizes fundamentalism as one of these new ways of being religious that have emerged in every major faith tradition. Focusing on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, and Muslim fundamentalism in Egypt and Iran, she examines the ways in which these movements, while not monolithic, have each sprung from a dread of modernity -- often in response to assault (sometimes unwitting, sometimes intentional) by the mainstream society.Armstrong sees fundamentalist groups as complex, innovative, and modern -- rather than as throwbacks to the past -- but contends that they have failed in religious terms. Maintaining that fundamentalism often exists in symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each impelling the other on to greater excess, she suggests compassion as a way to defuse what is now an intensifying conflict.