| Number of Pages |
: 104 |
| Size of file |
: 0.99MB |
| Auther |
: Karen Armstrong |
| Department |
: literature |
| book quality |
: Excellent |
| Language |
: Portuguese |
| Date of Coming |
: 2022-08-10 |
| Section |
: metaphysics |
Author: Karen Armstrong
About the Author: 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.
Breve história do mito book pdf download By Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong conduz o leitor a uma jornada através dos séculos para retraçar a história da mitologia: o que é, como se desenvolveu e por que precisamos tão desesperadamente dos mitos. Dos caçadores do período Paleolítico à grande transformação ocidental dos últimos quinhentos anos, a autora nos mostra como o mito, princípio central das crenças religiosas, foi sendo paulatinamente desacreditado pela ciência. Ela destaca a importância das culturas pioneiras e o papel da filosofia na mudança de rumo que cada vez mais nos leva a uma visão racionalista e pragmática, progressivamente distante da mitologia. Mas relembra que a mitologia foi criada para nos auxiliar a lidar com as dificuldades humanas, com as angústias e incertezas que a ciência ainda não foi capaz de superar. Serve, ao lado da filosofia, como precioso instrumento de compreensão dos fenômenos que fascinam e aterrorizam o homem desde o início dos tempos. Exemplo disso é o olhar que lançam sobre os mitos pesquisadores e estudiosos das mais diversas áreas. Freud, por exemplo, valeu-se dos mitos embutidos nas tragédias gregas para elaborar o conceito do complexo de Édipo. “Os seres humanos sempre foram criadores de mitos”, diz Karen, ao enfatizar a importância da mitologia para ampliar os horizontes e promover o reequilíbrio do homem moderno.
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