البحث عن العنوان البريدي أو موقع على الأنترنت للكاتبة Karen Armstrong

[عبد الحفيظ جباري]

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
أبحث عن العنوان البريدي أو موقع على الأنترنت للكاتبة الإنجليزية Karen Armstrong.
شـكــ وبارك الله فيك ـــرا ...

وكثير من السؤال اشتياق وكثير من رده تعليل

[عبد الحفيظ جباري]

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
أبحث عن العنوان البريدي أو موقع على الأنترنت للكاتبة الإنجليزية Karen Armstrong.
شـكــ وبارك الله فيك ـــرا ...

وكثير من السؤال اشتياق وكثير من رده تعليل

[داليا أحمد عبد الرحيم مصطفى]

Karen Armstrong (b. November 14, 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Armstrong is a former nun, now a "freelance monotheist" [1]. She has advanced the theory that fundamentalist religion is a response to and product of modern culture. She was born into a family with Irish roots who, after her birth, moved to Bromsgrove and later to Birmingham. According to professor Juan Eduardo Campo, Karen Armstrong has been influential in conveying the more objective post-19th-century scholarship of Islam to a wide readership in Europe and North America.[2]


From 1962 to 1969, Karen Armstrong was a nun in the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. This was a teaching order, and once she had advanced from postulant and novice to professed nun, she was sent to St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she studied English. Armstrong left the order during her course of study. After graduating, she embarked on a D. Phil. (still at Oxford) on Alfred, Lord Tennyson. She continued to work on it while later teaching at the University of London, but her thesis was rejected by an external examiner. She eventually left academia without completing her doctorate.

This period was marked by ill-health (Armstrong's life-long, but at that time undiagnosed, epilepsy as described in The Spiral Staircase (2004)) and her readjustment to outside life. In 1976, she became an English teacher at a girls' school in Dulwich, but her epilepsy caused her to miss too many school days, and she was asked to leave in 1981.

Armstrong published Through the Narrow Gate in 1982, which described the restricted and narrow life she experienced in the convent (and earned her the enmity of many British Catholics). In 1984 she was asked to write and present a documentary on the life of St. Paul. The research for the documentary made Armstrong look again at religion, despite having abandoned religious worship after she left the convent. She has since become a prolific writer on subjects touching on all of the three major monotheistic religions.

She is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar.

Armstrong has written a number of articles for The Guardian. Her latest book, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions, was published in March 2006; a revision of her biography of Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time, was published in October of 2006 by Harper Collins.

In 2006, she appeared on BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs". She also made commentaries on the documentary, "The Fundamentalists".

Armstrong was one of three winners of the TED Conference's TED prize in 2008.[3]


[edit] Theory of religious fundamentalism
Armstrong has advanced a counter-intuitive theory of religious fundamentalism[citation needed], key to understanding the movements as they emerged in the late fifteenth and twentieth centuries:

Central to her reading of history is the notion that premodern cultures possessed two complementary and indispensable ways of thinking, speaking and knowing: mythos and logos. Mythos was concerned with meaning; it "provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal" [4]. Logos, on the other hand, dealt with practical matters. It forged ahead, elaborating on old insights, mastering the environment, and creating fresh and new things. Armstrong argues that modern Western society has lost the sense of mythos and enshrined logos as its foundation. Mythical narratives and the rituals and meanings attached to them have ceded authority to that which is rational, pragmatic and scientific - but which does not assuage human pain or sorrow, and cannot answer questions about the ultimate value of human life. However, far from embarking on a wholesale rejection of the modern emphasis in favour of the old balance, the author contends, religious fundamentalists unwittingly turn the mythos of their faith into logos. Fundamentalism is a child of modernity, and fundamentalists are fundamentally modern.


[edit] Beliefs
Armstrong is a prolific scholar of religions and has written on a multitude of faiths. She described her personal religious beliefs in a C-Span interview in 2000:

“ I usually describe myself, perhaps flippantly, as a freelance monotheist. I draw sustenance from all three of the faiths of Abraham. I can't see any one of them as having the monopoly of truth, any one of them as superior to any of the others. Each has its own particular genius and each its own particular pitfalls and Achilles' heels. But recently, I've just written a short life [story] of the Buddha, and I've been enthralled by what he has to say about spirituality, about the ultimate, about compassion and about the necessary loss of ego before you can encounter the divine. And all the great traditions are, in my view, saying the same thing in much the same way, despite their surface differences. ”

[1]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Journal Articles
"Ambiguity and Remembrance: Individual and Collective Memory in Finland" (2000)
"The Holiness of Jerusalem: Asset or Burden?" (1998)
"Women, Tourism, Politics" (1977)

[edit] Books
The Bible: A Biography (2007)
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (2006)
Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time (2006)
A Short History of Myth (2005)
The Spiral Staircase (2004)
Faith After September 11th (2002)
The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2000)
Buddha (2000)
Islam: A Short History (2000)
In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis (1996)
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (1996)
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (1993)
The End of Silence: Women and the Priesthood (1993)
The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century (1991)
Muhammad: a Biography of the Prophet (1991)
Holy War (1988)
The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West (1986)
Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience (1985)
Beginning the World (1983)
The First Christian: Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity (1983)
Through the Narrow Gate (1982)

[edit] References
^ "Interview with Karen Armstrong, author of Islam: A Short History", Booknotes (C-SPAN), September 22, 2000. Retrieved on 2007-09-28.
^ Juan Eduardo Campo (November 1996). "Review of Muhammad and the Origins of Islam by F. E. Peters". International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (4): 597-599.
^ "TED Blog: Announcing 2008 TED Prize Winners" ([2007]). Retrieved on 2007-11-21.
^ Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Ballantine, 2000. p. xv

[edit] External links

[edit] Interviews
Interview with Karen Armstrong from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Interview on the Brian Lehrer Show
Interview with Robert Wright One of a series of interviews with influential philosophers and theologians on Slate.com's meaningoflife.tv (1hr 19min)
Booknotes interview with Brian Lamb
The freelance monotheism of Karen Armstrong — interview on American Public Media's Speaking of Faith
Religion scholar Karen Armstrong — interview on National Public Radio (N.P.R.)'s Fresh Air From WHYY
Bill Moyers interviews Karen Armstrong — transcript from Public Broadcasting Station (P.B.S.)'s NOW
PBS' Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Interview, "On America's Response to 9/11"
Charlie Rose interview video
Karen Armstrong speaks about her book, Prophet of Islam, (video)
PBS interview with Armstrong
David Weich interviews Armstrong at powells.com
CBC Tapestry interview by Mary Hynes

[edit] Miscellaneous
Brief synopsis of Armstrong's Buddha at smithsonianassociates.org
Profile of Armstrong at islamfortoday.com
Profile of Armstrong randomhouse.com
We cannot afford to maintain these ancient prejudices against Islam — The Guardian piece regarding Pope Benedict's remark on Islam post 9-11
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong"

[داليا أحمد عبد الرحيم مصطفى]

Karen Armstrong (b. November 14, 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Armstrong is a former nun, now a "freelance monotheist" [1]. She has advanced the theory that fundamentalist religion is a response to and product of modern culture. She was born into a family with Irish roots who, after her birth, moved to Bromsgrove and later to Birmingham. According to professor Juan Eduardo Campo, Karen Armstrong has been influential in conveying the more objective post-19th-century scholarship of Islam to a wide readership in Europe and North America.[2]


From 1962 to 1969, Karen Armstrong was a nun in the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. This was a teaching order, and once she had advanced from postulant and novice to professed nun, she was sent to St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she studied English. Armstrong left the order during her course of study. After graduating, she embarked on a D. Phil. (still at Oxford) on Alfred, Lord Tennyson. She continued to work on it while later teaching at the University of London, but her thesis was rejected by an external examiner. She eventually left academia without completing her doctorate.

This period was marked by ill-health (Armstrong's life-long, but at that time undiagnosed, epilepsy as described in The Spiral Staircase (2004)) and her readjustment to outside life. In 1976, she became an English teacher at a girls' school in Dulwich, but her epilepsy caused her to miss too many school days, and she was asked to leave in 1981.

Armstrong published Through the Narrow Gate in 1982, which described the restricted and narrow life she experienced in the convent (and earned her the enmity of many British Catholics). In 1984 she was asked to write and present a documentary on the life of St. Paul. The research for the documentary made Armstrong look again at religion, despite having abandoned religious worship after she left the convent. She has since become a prolific writer on subjects touching on all of the three major monotheistic religions.

She is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar.

Armstrong has written a number of articles for The Guardian. Her latest book, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions, was published in March 2006; a revision of her biography of Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time, was published in October of 2006 by Harper Collins.

In 2006, she appeared on BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs". She also made commentaries on the documentary, "The Fundamentalists".

Armstrong was one of three winners of the TED Conference's TED prize in 2008.[3]


[edit] Theory of religious fundamentalism
Armstrong has advanced a counter-intuitive theory of religious fundamentalism[citation needed], key to understanding the movements as they emerged in the late fifteenth and twentieth centuries:

Central to her reading of history is the notion that premodern cultures possessed two complementary and indispensable ways of thinking, speaking and knowing: mythos and logos. Mythos was concerned with meaning; it "provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal" [4]. Logos, on the other hand, dealt with practical matters. It forged ahead, elaborating on old insights, mastering the environment, and creating fresh and new things. Armstrong argues that modern Western society has lost the sense of mythos and enshrined logos as its foundation. Mythical narratives and the rituals and meanings attached to them have ceded authority to that which is rational, pragmatic and scientific - but which does not assuage human pain or sorrow, and cannot answer questions about the ultimate value of human life. However, far from embarking on a wholesale rejection of the modern emphasis in favour of the old balance, the author contends, religious fundamentalists unwittingly turn the mythos of their faith into logos. Fundamentalism is a child of modernity, and fundamentalists are fundamentally modern.


[edit] Beliefs
Armstrong is a prolific scholar of religions and has written on a multitude of faiths. She described her personal religious beliefs in a C-Span interview in 2000:

“ I usually describe myself, perhaps flippantly, as a freelance monotheist. I draw sustenance from all three of the faiths of Abraham. I can't see any one of them as having the monopoly of truth, any one of them as superior to any of the others. Each has its own particular genius and each its own particular pitfalls and Achilles' heels. But recently, I've just written a short life [story] of the Buddha, and I've been enthralled by what he has to say about spirituality, about the ultimate, about compassion and about the necessary loss of ego before you can encounter the divine. And all the great traditions are, in my view, saying the same thing in much the same way, despite their surface differences. ”

[1]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Journal Articles
"Ambiguity and Remembrance: Individual and Collective Memory in Finland" (2000)
"The Holiness of Jerusalem: Asset or Burden?" (1998)
"Women, Tourism, Politics" (1977)

[edit] Books
The Bible: A Biography (2007)
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (2006)
Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time (2006)
A Short History of Myth (2005)
The Spiral Staircase (2004)
Faith After September 11th (2002)
The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2000)
Buddha (2000)
Islam: A Short History (2000)
In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis (1996)
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (1996)
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (1993)
The End of Silence: Women and the Priesthood (1993)
The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century (1991)
Muhammad: a Biography of the Prophet (1991)
Holy War (1988)
The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West (1986)
Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience (1985)
Beginning the World (1983)
The First Christian: Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity (1983)
Through the Narrow Gate (1982)

[edit] References
^ "Interview with Karen Armstrong, author of Islam: A Short History", Booknotes (C-SPAN), September 22, 2000. Retrieved on 2007-09-28.
^ Juan Eduardo Campo (November 1996). "Review of Muhammad and the Origins of Islam by F. E. Peters". International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (4): 597-599.
^ "TED Blog: Announcing 2008 TED Prize Winners" ([2007]). Retrieved on 2007-11-21.
^ Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Ballantine, 2000. p. xv

[edit] External links

[edit] Interviews
Interview with Karen Armstrong from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Interview on the Brian Lehrer Show
Interview with Robert Wright One of a series of interviews with influential philosophers and theologians on Slate.com's meaningoflife.tv (1hr 19min)
Booknotes interview with Brian Lamb
The freelance monotheism of Karen Armstrong — interview on American Public Media's Speaking of Faith
Religion scholar Karen Armstrong — interview on National Public Radio (N.P.R.)'s Fresh Air From WHYY
Bill Moyers interviews Karen Armstrong — transcript from Public Broadcasting Station (P.B.S.)'s NOW
PBS' Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Interview, "On America's Response to 9/11"
Charlie Rose interview video
Karen Armstrong speaks about her book, Prophet of Islam, (video)
PBS interview with Armstrong
David Weich interviews Armstrong at powells.com
CBC Tapestry interview by Mary Hynes

[edit] Miscellaneous
Brief synopsis of Armstrong's Buddha at smithsonianassociates.org
Profile of Armstrong at islamfortoday.com
Profile of Armstrong randomhouse.com
We cannot afford to maintain these ancient prejudices against Islam — The Guardian piece regarding Pope Benedict's remark on Islam post 9-11
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong"

[داليا أحمد عبد الرحيم مصطفى]

المقدمة السابقة تجدونها علؤ=ى موقع ويكيبيديا:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong

أما بالنسبة للموقع الخاص بها والبريد الإلكتروني، فإليك ما يلي مما استطعت التوصل إليه:

ممكن الاطلاع على سيرتها المختصرة وأعمالها المنشورة المعروفة مثل كتاب "محمد" و"الأصولية"
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors...ong/index.aspx
وهنا منتدى لنقاش البرنامج التلفزيوني الذي يتناول حياتها وأعمالها:
http://fora.tv/2006/11/20/Karen_Armstrong


وقد حاولت الحصول على البريد الإلكتروني وتوصلت إلى هذا البريد
karen.armstrong@helsinki.fi
من موقع مؤتمر
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/opas2005.../index-en.html

وأعتقد أنه يتطلب التحققـ، لكن يمكنك مراسلة المذكورة وسؤالها إذا ما كانت هي المقصودة.
أما هذا الرابط فيحتوي مقال نشرته الجارديان تنتقد فيه التجني على الإسلام الذي صدر عن بابا الفاتيكان:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...874653,00.html


أرجو أن تكون هذه المحاولات نافعة. كما أرجو للجميع أن يطلعوا على أعمال وآراء هذه المفكرة "الإنسانة" والعادلة إلى حد كبير والتي يندر أن نرى مثلها من الغرب، في هذا الزمان الذي انقلبت فيه المعايير وأصبح الإسلام هو الوصمة السوداء. إن نداءها بتكامل المذاهب وتعايشها واحترام بعضها للبعض هو خير حاقن للدماء وهو نداء للمحبة والسلام نطلبه بشدة بل ونشدد على محاورة من يقف في طريقه.

سلامي
أم نديم

[داليا أحمد عبد الرحيم مصطفى]

المقدمة السابقة تجدونها علؤ=ى موقع ويكيبيديا:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong

أما بالنسبة للموقع الخاص بها والبريد الإلكتروني، فإليك ما يلي مما استطعت التوصل إليه:

ممكن الاطلاع على سيرتها المختصرة وأعمالها المنشورة المعروفة مثل كتاب "محمد" و"الأصولية"
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors...ong/index.aspx
وهنا منتدى لنقاش البرنامج التلفزيوني الذي يتناول حياتها وأعمالها:
http://fora.tv/2006/11/20/Karen_Armstrong


وقد حاولت الحصول على البريد الإلكتروني وتوصلت إلى هذا البريد
karen.armstrong@helsinki.fi
من موقع مؤتمر
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/opas2005.../index-en.html

وأعتقد أنه يتطلب التحققـ، لكن يمكنك مراسلة المذكورة وسؤالها إذا ما كانت هي المقصودة.
أما هذا الرابط فيحتوي مقال نشرته الجارديان تنتقد فيه التجني على الإسلام الذي صدر عن بابا الفاتيكان:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...874653,00.html


أرجو أن تكون هذه المحاولات نافعة. كما أرجو للجميع أن يطلعوا على أعمال وآراء هذه المفكرة "الإنسانة" والعادلة إلى حد كبير والتي يندر أن نرى مثلها من الغرب، في هذا الزمان الذي انقلبت فيه المعايير وأصبح الإسلام هو الوصمة السوداء. إن نداءها بتكامل المذاهب وتعايشها واحترام بعضها للبعض هو خير حاقن للدماء وهو نداء للمحبة والسلام نطلبه بشدة بل ونشدد على محاورة من يقف في طريقه.

سلامي
أم نديم