Karen Armstrong
Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS
English - March 13, 2009 15:00 - 56 minutes - 19.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 363 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture news religion politics television culture society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With economic, political, and social strife across the globe, prominent religious scholar Karen Armstrong discusses our human commonalities and her work on an international charter for compassion. The renowned author of The Battle for God and The Bible: A Biography, Armstrong is a 2008 recipient of the coveted TED Prize. In a distinguished career encompassing time as a Roman Catholic nun, an academic, and a television broadcaster, Armstrong has become one of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs, who first drew attention with her critically-acclaimed book Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet.