{"id":578,"date":"2022-10-16T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2022-10-16T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:17:06","slug":"2008-ted-prize-wish-charter-for-compassion-karen-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/?page_id=578","title":{"rendered":"2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion | Karen Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Karen Armstrong, religious scholar. February 2008. (21:16)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJMm4RAwVLo?start=55&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">I. Pre-watching task. Working in pairs support the statement you agree with:<\/mark><\/strong><br>\u25cf Religion is a force for harmony in the world.<br>\u25cf Religion has been the cause of all the major world wars in history.<br>\u25cf Religion is a kind of fault line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">II. Answer the questions:<\/mark><\/strong><br>1) What did Karen Armstrong find out in the course of her study of religious<br>traditions?<br>2) In what way did Karen Armstrong rediscover religion?<br>3) What common tenet do the major world traditions highlight? Sum it up.<br>4) How does the speaker refute the assumption that religion has been the cause of all the major world wars in history?<br>5) What role does she think religion should play in the modern world?<br>6) What does Karen Armstrong call for and how should it be achieved?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">III. Paraphrase the statements:<\/mark><\/strong><br>\u25cf The Golden Rule was first propounded by Confucius five centuries before<br>Christ.<br>\u25cf Religious doctrines are meant to be summons to action.<br>\u25cf Pride of place in this practice is given to compassion.<br>\u25cf Religion, too, has been affected by this violent ethos.<br>\u25cf You could not and must not confine your compassion to your own group:<br>your own nation, your own co-religionists, your own fellow countrymen. This universal outreach is getting subdued in the strident use of religion &#8212;<br>abuse of religion &#8212; for nefarious gains.<br>\u25cf These traditions are so often at loggerheads now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">IV. Identify the topic and thesis of the talk.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">V. Give the gist\/summary of the talk.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">VI. First expand on the statement, then agree or disagree, give your reasons.<\/mark><\/strong><br>\u25cf Any ideology that doesn&#8217;t promote a sense of global understanding and<br>global appreciation of each other is failing the test of the time.<br>\u25cf It&#8217;s time that we moved beyond the idea of toleration and move toward<br>appreciation of the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Armstrong, religious scholar. February 2008. (21:16) I. Pre-watching task. Working in pairs support the statement you agree with:\u25cf Religion is a force for harmony in the world.\u25cf Religion has been the cause of all the major world wars in history.\u25cf Religion is a kind of fault line. II. Answer the questions:1) What did Karen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-578","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaf1.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}