Karen
Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious
affairs-including A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War,
Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation-and two memoirs, Through
the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated
into forty-five languages. She has addressed members of the U.S.
Congress on three occasions; lectured to policy makers at the U.S.
State Department; participated in the World Economic Forum in New York,
Jordan, and Davos; addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in
Washington and New York; is increasingly invited to speak in Muslim
countries; and is now an ambassador for the UN Alliance of
Civilizations. In February 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and is
currently working with TED on a major international project to launch
and propagate a Charter for Compassion, created online by the general
public and crafted by… Read more
Karen
Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious
affairs-including A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War,
Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation-and two memoirs, Through
the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated
into forty-five languages. She has addressed members of the U.S.
Congress on three occasions; lectured to policy makers at the U.S.
State Department; participated in the World Economic Forum in New York,
Jordan, and Davos; addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in
Washington and New York; is increasingly invited to speak in Muslim
countries; and is now an ambassador for the UN Alliance of
Civilizations. In February 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and is
currently working with TED on a major international project to launch
and propagate a Charter for Compassion, created online by the general
public and crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
Hinduism, and Buddhism, to be signed in the fall of 2009 by a thousand
religious and secular leaders. She lives in London.
Karen
Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944), is a British author and
commentator who is the author of twelve books on comparative religion.
A former Roman Catholic nun, she went from a conservative to a more
liberal and mystical faith. Armstrong first rose to prominence in 1993
with her book, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam, an international best seller that is now
required reading in many theology courses. Her work focuses on
commonalities of the major religions, such as the importance, in many,
of compassion or "The Golden Rule".
Armstrong received the $100,000 TED Prize in February 2008. She used
that occasion to call for the creation of a Charter for Compassion,
which was unveiled the following year. Read more – Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon
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