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Description: Book Club -- March 2016 -- something by Karen Armstrong

Hosted by the Center for Sacred Sciences Library
When: Thursday, March 3, 2016
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Where: 5440 Saratoga Street, Eugene, OR 97405, USA

Description: Read something by Karen Armstrong and come discuss with us. There are many to choose from, some are on the reserve shelf in the Center's library waiting for you, as well as Smith Family Books, Eugene Public Library . . .

Would you like to get to know her story? There are two choices Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. Through the Narrow Gate covers her time as a nun in the 1960's, and her decision to leave that life, while Spiral Staircase deals with the aftermath and her growing interest in the spiritual life, but from a different perspective.

Something by her that is on the shorter side and accessible?

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Buddha

Or does your mood run to something long, historical and deep?
History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The Case for God
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
The Bible: A Biography

New members welcome. (CtrSacredSciences)… (mere)

Karen Armstrong (Buddha, History of God, Holy war, In the Beginning, Islam, Jerusalem, The battle for God, The Case for God, The Great Transformation, The Spiral Staircase, Visions of God, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Fields of blood)

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The battle for God, Holy war, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy’s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

Karen Armstrong (Buddha, History of God, Holy war, In the Beginning, Islam, Jerusalem, The battle for God, The Case for God, The Great Transformation, The Spiral Staircase, Visions of God, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Fields of blood)

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The battle for God, Holy war, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy’s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

Karen Armstrong (Buddha, History of God, Holy war, In the Beginning, Islam, Jerusalem, The battle for God, The Case for God, The Great Transformation, The Spiral Staircase, Visions of God, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Fields of blood)

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The battle for God, Holy war, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy’s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

Karen Armstrong (Buddha, History of God, Holy war, In the Beginning, Islam, Jerusalem, The battle for God, The Case for God, The Great Transformation, The Spiral Staircase, Visions of God, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Fields of blood)

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The battle for God, Holy war, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy’s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

Karen Armstrong (Buddha, History of God, Holy war, In the Beginning, Islam, Jerusalem, The battle for God, The Case for God, The Great Transformation, The Spiral Staircase, Visions of God, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Fields of blood)

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The battle for God, Holy war, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy’s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

Karen Armstrong (Buddha, History of God, Holy war, In the Beginning, Islam, Jerusalem, The battle for God, The Case for God, The Great Transformation, The Spiral Staircase, Visions of God, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Fields of blood)

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The battle for God, Holy war, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy’s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

Read and discuss a variety of books exploring how to create a more civil and engaged community.Join Mary Dumas on the third Wednesday of the month from noon to 1:30. Authors DO NOT attend. Meetings are in the Readings Gallery -- brown bag lunches are encouraged. Anyone interested in exploring their role as an engaged citizen is welcome.

Wed, Feb 19, noon

The Case for God by Karen Armstrong

A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age". Join us for a discussion exploring the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. While this book focuses especially on Christianity, it includes explorations of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities to examine attitudes toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.

Location: Street: 1200 11th St City: Bellingham, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98225-7015 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)