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Karen Armstrong formule son souhait TED Prize : la Charte pour la Compassion

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• February 2008

Les gens veulent être religieux, dit l'érudite Karen Armstrong; nous devons aider à faire de la religion une force pour l'harmonie. Elle demande à la communauté TED de l'aider à construire une Charte pour la Compassion pour aider à restaurer La Règle d'Or comme centre de la doctrine religieuse.

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Les gens veulent être religieux, dit l'érudite Karen Armstrong; nous devons aider à faire de la religion une force pour l'harmonie. Elle demande à la communauté TED de l'aider à construire une Charte pour la Compassion pour aider à restaurer La Règle d'Or comme centre de la doctrine religieuse.

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Karen Armstrong

Religious scholar

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Karen Armstrong -- winner of the 2008 TED Prize -- is a provocative, original thinker on the role of religion in the modern world.

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