The Religion Graduate Students’ Association of Columbia University is accepting proposals for its eighth annual conference, Pray, Kill, Eat: Relating to Animals across Religious Traditions. The conference will take place Friday, April 20, 2012, at Columbia, with keynote speakers Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago) and Kimberly C. Patton (Harvard Divinity School). Details below.
Posts Tagged ‘comparative religions’
January 27th, 2010
Making compassion cool: An interview with Karen Armstrong
posted by Nathan Schneider
A former Catholic nun, Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on comparative religions, including A History of God, The Great Transformation, and, most recently, A Case for God. In 2008, she received the TED Prize, which granted $100,000 to support her proposal—her “wish,” as it’s called—for a Charter for Compassion “based on the fundamental principle of the Golden Rule.” Since then, she and TED have parlayed the Charter into a movement of political and religious leaders, as well as, through its website, thousands of people around the world.
January 5th, 2010
Karen Armstrong’s “big story”
posted by Nathan SchneiderAt Religion Dispatches, religion scholar and now-activist Karen Armstrong talks with Laurie L. Patton about her more than 20 books and her new Charter for Compassion initiative.
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