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  Die Charter for Compassion ist eine internationale Organisation, die sich für die Verständigung und Befriedung der Religionen einsetzt und zu einem verstärkten interreligiösen Engagement einlädt. Die bekannte Religionswissenschaftlerin Karen Armstrong ist eine ihrer wichtigsten Promotorinnen. Peace Education: Wo der Frieden beginnt      

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Nun hat die Charter for Compassion einen umfassenden und beeindruckenden "Islamobophia-Guide" herausgebracht.
Dieser steht vollständig und gratis zum Download bereit: hier

Die einzelnen Themen zum Download: 

The Religion & Spirituality Compassion Reader

• Compassion and Religion
  • Compassion: A Religion for All
  • A Big Heart Open to God
  • Compassion is Radical
  • The Roots of Compassion
  • Islamophobia Guidebook
    • Contents of Islamophobia Guidebook
    • Introduction and How to Use This Guidebook
    • Background Articles by Karen Armstrong
    • Islamophobia
    • Islamophobia and the Media
      • Five Ways Journalists Can Avoid Islamophobia in Their Coverage
      • Because it’s totally un-Islamic
      • Campaign Organiser Warns of Danger of Political Rhetoric
      • We Stand With Paris (India)
      • 70,000 Muslim Clerics Issue Fatwa Condemning Terrorism (India)
      • Islamophobia in 2015: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful
      • An Unusual Christmas Event
    • Anti-Muslim Bigotry
    • Anti-Prejudice Tools
    • Materials for Educators
    • Organizations
    • Articles and Sources for Reflection
    • Recommended Books
    • Acknowledgements
  • A Call to Jews: Let’s Find Compassion through Mourning on the Sabbath
  • A Religion of Compassion: A Letter to Pope Francis
  • Stories of the Modern Pilgrimage
  • The Rule
  • The Great and Curious Truth
  • Two Kinds of Change: Impermanence and Mind
  • Faith's Common Thread
  • Healers of Color Raises Chicago's Vibration with Community Healing
  • How to Cultivate Practical Wisdom in Our Everyday Lives and Why It Matters in Our Individual and Collective Happiness
  • Isaac Asimov on Optimism vs. Cynicism about the Human Spirit
  • Pope Francis Has a Strong Message for Israel And Palestine
  • The Happy Prince, and the need for Kindness at Christmas and Every Day
  • When a King and a Pope Sit Down to Talk Religion
  • Why the Arab World is Lost in an Emotional Nakba, and How We Keep It There
  • Radical Amazement
• Attributes of Compassion
  • Barbara Kingsolver on How to be Hopeful
  • Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced
  • Contemplating Gratitude: What It Is. What It is Not and Where to Find It
  • How the Mind Affects Your Happiness
  • How to Listen to Your Life
  • Nine Steps to Forgiveness
  • Our Greatest Fear
  • Seamus Heaney on Self-Belief, Faith and Chosen Values
  • Six Life Lessons from Leo Tolstoy
  • Viktor Frankl on the Art of Presence as a Lifeboat in Turbulent Times and What Suffering Teaches Us about the Meaning of Life
  • On Grudges and Forgiveness
  • On Hope and Power
  • Sacred Alchemy
  • A Sense of the Transcendent
  • Back To The Workhouse: One Human Heart
  • Empathy
  • Charles Dickens on Grief and How to Heal a Mourning Heart
  • Freedom From Fear
  • George Lucas on the Meaning of Life
  • When I started loving myself
  • When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart
  • Godliness in the Known and the Unknowable: Alan Lightman on Science and Spirituality
  • Indira Gandhi’s Father on Power, Privilege, and Kindness: Letters to His 10-Year-Old Daughter
  • The Essence of Forgiveness
  • David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful
  • Interfaith in the Golden Rule
  • Compassion and the Individual
  • Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness
• Becoming Compassionate
  • A Guide to Cultivating Compassion in Your Life, With 7 Practices
  • Compassion: Accepting Life as it Is Without Sorrow or Emotional Reaction
  • When is compassion real?
  • Darwin Revisited: Compassion Key to Our Survival
  • Desmond Tutu on Compassion
  • Flowers of Compassion
  • Three Ways to Live a Compassionate Life
  • Finding Happiness Amongst Uncertainty
  • Meeting Racism, Homophobia and Close-Mindedness With Love and Compassion
  • 22 Random Acts of Kindness
  • Five Ways to Build Empathy In Our Communities
  • How Not to Be Alone
  • How it is: Compassion often can flow from life's tragedies
  • Tory MEP replies to Gerard Batten's call for Muslims to sign pledge
  • Loves Final Embrace
  • Shared Words, Shared Worlds
  • The Compassionate Approach
  • Theory of Mind: Why Art Evokes Empathy
  • This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief
  • Wisdom: I know it when I see it
  • Is Religion Good or Bad?
• Compassion in Action
  • Karen Olson taps religious groups to help the homeless
  • Kindness One: A Chance Meeting Reaffirms a Traveler's Faith
  • Like a Bear Robbed of Her Cubs
  • The Kindness of Strangers
  • The New Science of Forgiveness
  • The Spiritual Practice of Empathy
  • Truth and Reconciliation walk turnout amazes organizers, as an estimated 70,000 brave downpour in Vancouver
  • El Gusto: Muslim, Christian and Jewish Friends Make Music
  • Norwegians Sing "NO" to Killer with Seeger Song
  • Peace Recipe
  • Bulldozing History, Boggeling Partnerships, and the Mind of the Beast
  • Interfaith League Brings Play and Wonder to World Interfaith Harmony Week
  • Muslim/Jewish Statement on Gaza and Israel
  • Thousands of mothers gather at Knesset to demand Israeli-Palestinian peace accord
  • Voltaire argued that religious intolerance was against the law of nature
• Spirituality
  • Wherever You Go, There You Go
  • 5 Key Words Every Spiritual Person Needs to Know
  • Idiot Compassion and the Power of Sorrow
  • The Morality of Meditation
  • The Spirituality of Imperfection
  • This is the Most Important Thing
  • 8 Ways to Tell if You're a Truly Compassionate Person
  • Message to the World's Religious Leaders from the Universal House of Justice
  • Montaigne and the Double Meaning of Meditation
  • Trouble in Paradise
• Understanding our Differences and Similarities
  • Muslims around the world celebrate the birth of Mohammed
  • My Brand of Hope-Filled Christian Uncertainty
  • Parliament of the World’s Religions Declaration Toward a Global Ethic
  • Pope Francis assures atheists: You don’t have to believe in God to go to heaven
  • Revelation at Laikipia, Kenya to Chief Tamale Bwoya
  • The Christian Wisdom of Tenderness: Jean Vanier on Lived Compassion, L’Arche and Becoming Human
  • Varieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and God
  • We Need Ethical Evolution, Not More Destructive Fundamentalist "Certainty"
  • Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America
  • Why Everyone Suffers in Unequal Societies
  • Awful Religious Stereotypes?
  • To Study the Way of Buddha
  • Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
  • Buddhist-Muslim Commitment to Action and the Dusit Declaration
  • Dalai Lama Decries Buddhist Attacks On Muslims In Myanmar
  • We Forgave Him
  • The Way of the Spiritual Warrior: Live Intentionally
• Thoughts to Guide Us
  • The Shortness of Life Understanding our Differences and Similarities
  • Amma highlights value of compassion
  • The world as it is: The influence of religion
  • Interfaith Collaboration – Walking the Talk
• Reflections on Migration: VIVAT