Karen Armstrong on Sacred Nature | 5x15
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- 5x15 hosts Karen Armstrong for a conversation on her powerful new book Sacred Nature - an urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to rekindle our spiritual bond with nature, drawing on the wisdom of the world's religious traditions. She is in conversation with 5x15 co-founder Rosie Boycott.
Armstrong is one of the world’s leading commentators on religious affairs. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun before going on to become an acclaimed writer and broadcaster.
In Sacred Nature, Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, it is not enough to change our behaviour: we need to learn to think and feel differently about the natural world - to rekindle our spiritual bond with nature. For most of human history, and in almost all the world's cultures, nature was believed to be sacred, and our God or gods to be present everywhere in the natural world.
When people in the West began to separate God and nature in modern times, it was not just a profound breach with thousands of years of accumulated wisdom: it also set in train the destruction of the natural world. Taking themes that have been central to the world's religious traditions - from gratitude and compassion to sacrifice and non-violence - Armstrong offers practical steps to help us develop a new mindset to reconnect with nature and rekindle our sense of the sacred.
Sacred Nature reveals the most profound connections between humans and the natural world. It speaks to anyone interested in our relationship with nature, worried about the destruction of our environment, and searching for new ways of thinking to shape the action needed to save our planet.
Karen Armstrong is one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun but left her teaching order in 1969 to read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1982, she became a full-time writer and broadcaster. She is the author of sixteen books and has been awarded with honours and prizes across the globe, including the British Academy's inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for improving transcultural understanding in 2013.
Rosie Boycott is a member of the House of Lords and has a long and distinguished career as a journalist, publisher and author, including having been the editor of several national newspapers in the UK.
Praise for Karen Armstrong:
‘Karen Armstrong is a genius’ A.N. Wilson
'One of our best living writers on religion' Financial Times
‘Karen Armstrong is one of the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion' Alain de Botton
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I just finished reading A Short History of Myth. Such a wonderful book!
I'm surprised that the Western view doesn't recognise Celtic culture and Celtic Christianity in particular, which is based on people and nature together. There was a hint of that only with Karen's reference to the change in the 16th century (reformation). Recovery of Celtic practice would be a really effective step forward.
We may be positively inspired - by others - we have to think - for ourselves. Remember - this is a universe -of change.
On an evening walk earlier in the year, I enjoyed listening to the bird call as I was on an estuary at low tide. There were fog walkers around, however I ignored them. My Land lady was quite surprised when I said I ignored the dog walkers
I am 88 and practice Qigong and spend much time alone, luckily
I m 55 and i m always alone, Nature, silence,
Oh my! I have been an avid Naturalist for over 4 decades and have had a great interest in comparative religion for just a long. I have read a couple of Karen's books and I swear that this is the first time that I have heard the opinion that Islam has a special reverence for the Natural World. Ms. Armstrong states that it is superior to Christianity and Judaism in this respect when I have long assumed that Muslims were the most Biophobic of these Desert religions. I must look into this...and being a man of Science I don't mind that I may have been incorrect in my view.
Brilliant and humble.
Look up Raimon Panikkar's Cosmotheandric Vision
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Mary Oliver's poetry
Yes, also christianity, vegetais simbols in stone
Africa seems to be always neglected in Dame Armstrong's explorations. The Continent of origins of everything. Vudu, for example, is replete with a co-dependence on nature. And I would point out that those lower case d-ios or g-ods is really abouts saints, who were honored ancestors, who brought great benefits to their communities. This largest of the continents, which gave us the first societies, the first religions, simply disappears in your explorations. It is non-existent in your worldview. You still have time to begin an exploration.❣️🌍
She lost me in the first few seconds.."The hideous weather we had last week shows that climate change is on the rise" Right, so no hideous weather before..😂😂😂
Karen never fails to expose her distain of Christianity. Every Christian retreat house and monastery i have been to, and I've been to many, has always been located in the most wonderful natural setting or garden. This provides the most perfect setting for prayer and contemplation on the miracle of God's creation. " The whole earth is full of his glory!" I really don't know what planet Karen is living on. I also wonder if she is aware that the Hindu/animist religion of Indonesia which is still alive and well In Bali put nature center stage. Sadly it was largely replaced by Islam which cares little for nature. Arab/Muslim slave traders took 36,000 Balinese from their precious island paradise to the hot desert, devoid of all nature bar the blazing sun.
Your comment got my attention. FYI
Karen was a Nun.
@@charles360 Yes I know that. I read her book "Through the Narrow Gate" more than 20 years ago.
@@charles360 Yes I know that. I read her book "Through the Narrow Gate" more than 20 years ago.
@@retribution999 I think of her as a female Joseph Campbell someone who does her homework. I read the History of God, and because of this book I go to VOUS CHURCH today. ruclips.net/video/SbCSKY9ASlk/видео.html
Don't recall Mohammed having much to say about nature. He was too busy slaughtering as is well documented but Karen always turns a blind eye to this inconvenient truth. Just like she here ignores the adoration of nature in Celtic Christianity and monasticism. Many churches, Abbey's, Cathedrals in Britain have carvings of the Green Man. St Albans Cathedral has at least 6.