Short video explaining Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion. The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody with justice and equity. ...
In a joint Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Karen Armstrong was invited to share her thoughts on "The Core of our Religious Traditions. Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who left a British convent to pursue a degree in modern literature at Oxford, a best-selling author, and UN Ambassador for the Alliance of Civilizations. ...
David Bentley Hart, author of "The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss," spoke on his book at the Bonhoeffer House at the University of Virginia. David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion, philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. Hart plumbs the depths of humanity's experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God. ...
Sacred stories - stories, such as the lives of past heroes, parables and folk tales that convey a moral or religious truth. This is video 3 in our series on the 9 Aspects of Religion. ...
Features a short clip on Sacred Stories (9 Aspects of Religion); a lecture on Religion Literacy by Stephen Prothero, an explanation of the relationship between culture and religion by Harvard EdX, a talk on the different understandings of God by David Bentley Hart, and a speech on Love and Justice in a World of Suffering by Omid Safi...and more. ...
Introduction to the 9 Aspects of all religions. These aspects help us when studying or comparing religions. The aspects are Beliefs, Sacred Stories, Spaces Places Times and Artifacts, Texts, Rituals, Symbols, Social Structures, Ethics, and Spiritual Experiences. ...
Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. In 2008, she launched the Charter of Compassion, based on the Golden Rule: that we should treat others how we would want to be treated. ...
Features an animation of how religion spread around the world; an interview on Religion with Karen Armstrong; a short clip on the understanding of God in Religions by National Geographic; A Theory of Violence by Harvard Religion EdX, a lecture on Interfaith Leadership and Literacy by Eboo Patel...and more. ...
Dr. Hussein Rashid, founder of Islamicate, a consultancy focusing on religious literacy and cultural competency, discusses the relationship between the Enlightenment in Europe and how the state of violence is used to reinforce existing power structures. ...
What you need to know about the future of world religions: by 2050, the number of Muslims around the world will nearly equal the number of Christians, as Islam will grow faster than any other major world religion. ...
Features an TED-Ed clip on the five major world religions; a lecture on "What is Religion?" by Karen Armstrong; an explanation on the history of spread of religion; a book documentary on the Bible Unearthed - historical analysis of the events of the Bible; a talk on Religion, the Nation-State and Violence by Hussein Rashid...and more. ...
Despite the anti-Muslim fervor that has plagued the United States for over a decade, Eboo Patel, author and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, sees strong connections between Islam and America. It's about pluralism, Eboo says in this lecture, which took place during a week examining "Radicalism." Eboo cites America's founding fathers' efforts to ensure religious and secular pluralism. ...
The study of religion is a rich and fascinating dimension of human experience that includes, but goes well beyond, an exploration of beliefs and ritual practices. Harvard Religion EdX explores how religions are internally diverse, and how they evolve and change as living traditions that impact, and are impacted, by the cultural, historical, and political contexts of adherents. ...
Features a short clip from Harvard Religion EdX on the misunderstandings of Religion; a lecture on the core of our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong; a Reality Check: Religion isn't on the way out by Al-Jazeera; a talk on Averting Violent Extremism by Ali Asani, a speech on Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America by Eboo Patel...and more. ...
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