Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

SR No.: 529503
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 242
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, USA_Parliament of World Religion, & USA
File Size: 10 MB

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1999
PARLIAMENT O F
DIALOGUE
2:00 PM-5:00 PM IN ENGINEERING 1.19 Religion and Sport: 100 Years of the Olympic and Interfaith Movements
Dr. Kurt Weis; Dr. David W. Chappell; Prof. Michael von Brück; Dr. George Eisen; Prof. Moshe Zimmermann; Mr. Frans Cronjé; Mr. Mike Alford; Mr. Chris Dirks
Religion and sports, though obviously belonging to different worlds, are related in many ways. They are historically, culturally, socially, and politically connected. Modern sports and traditional religions are social institutions with parallel structures and functions. They are both "time-outs" in our societies and in some cases, have also been appropriated as state religions and state sports. They can complement, reinforce, reaffirm, and influence each other. Usually, they do not replace each other. However, sports as a modern institution has come to fulfill the five major social functions of religion. Presenters will discuss the relation of religion to sports in a variety of contexts. Kurt Weis: 100 Years of the Olympic and Interfaith Movements; a Comparision of Two Vision for a Better World (Introductory lecture); Respondent: David Chappell Michael von Brück: Interculturality and Identity-the Perception of Religion in Preconceived Contexts George Eisen: Sport and Religion: Contradictions and Parallels Mike Alford and Chris Dirks: The Spirit of the Game (Oral and video presentation on how top American football players integrate their faith and sport) Frans Cronjé: Top Christian Sportsmen as Role Models-Sportsmen Testifying that Jesus Christ is the Only Way to Salvation ▪Moshe Zimmerman: Religion and Nation in Jewish Sport.-Between Muscle Judaism and Talmud Judaism
Dr. Kurt Weis received his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, Institute of Sport Sciences, and Technical University of Munich, Germany. His areas of research and interest include: sociology of time, futures studies, technology, deviance, youth, culture, sports, and religion.
David W. Chappell has a Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the Director of the East-West Religions Project, a founding member and past president(1993-95) of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and is currently a professor and Graduate Chair of the Religion Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has focused his work not only on Christian, Buddhist and Taoist studies, but on exploring their boundaries and inter-connections in society.
Dr. Michael von Brueck is the Chair of the Comparative Religions Department and Dean of Evangelical Theological Faculty at Munich University, Germany. Author of books on Hinduism and Buddhism, and the Editor of the Dialog Der Religionen. He is also a practicing teacher of Yoga and Zen Buddhism.
Dr. Eisen is the Director of the Center for International Education at Central Connecticut University in New Britain, CT. He is the product of three educational systems, Hungary, Israel and America and holds two Ph.D's in history and sociology. He has published extensively about religious issues and sport.
Dr. Zimmermann is the Koebner Professor of German History in the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has publications on German Jews, Antisemitism and Jewish Nationalism. Frans Cronje is the Executive Head of SCAS- Sport for Christ Action South Africa and a former professional rugby and cricket player and coach. He is also a qualified physiotherapist and lives in Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
Mike Alford coached and played baseball in the U.S.A. He is currently playing and coaching baseball in South Africa. He is the Director of Athletes in Action and has been a member for eleven years. He is also a member of Campus Crusade for Christ, nine years in the United States, and two years in Cape Town, South Africa.
Chris Dirks is a former cross-country runner and action cricket player. Five years with Athletes in Action (the sports ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ), Johannesburg, South Africa.
2:00 PM-3:00 PM IN COMMERCE 1.37 Remembering Swiss Air 111
Canon Eric B. Beresford
Following the crash of Swiss Air flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, an interfaith service was organized. Restrictions were placed on some participants to avoid giving offense to
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other traditions, which created a storm of protest. Therefore, several national interfaith groups became involved in drafting a response to the management of the event. The service and responses will provide the basis of a case study of the way in which pluralism and the particularities of community identity interact in the Canadian context.
Canon Beresford was born in the U.K., educated at Liverpool, Oxford and McGill University. He was ordained in 1982 and has been living in Canada since 1985. He taught Ethics at McGill (1991-1996). He has been the Consultant for Ethics and interfaith Relations of the Anglican Church of Canada since 1996, a member of the Canadian Christian Jewish Consultation, chair of the National Muslim Christian Liaison Committee of Canada, and a member of the Interfaith Relations Committee of Canadian Council of Churches.
2:00 PM-2:45 PM IN COMMERCE 1.33 Science and Religion
Prof. Varadaraja V. Raman
In the impending century, religious leaders cannot afford to ignore the impacts of scientific knowledge in our values and belief systems; nor can be the scientific establishment ignore the relevance and significance of the religious framework for human sanity, society, and civilization. The lecture will be an elaboration of this thesis.
Prof. V. V. Raman, author of several books and numerous articles and papers on science and its impact. He has also discussed the relationships between science and religion in various presentations. Prof. Raman holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Paris.
3:00 PM-3:45 PM IN COMMERCE 2.57 Interfaith Cooperation in a Plural World: the Case of Malaysia
Dr. Kamar Oniah Kamaruzaman
In multi-ethnic and multi-religious Malaysia, it has already been established that progress can be ensured only through close cooperation among various faith communities. The presenter reviews what has already been achieved in Malaysia and recommends how more can be accomplished in the future. Dr. Kamar Oniah Kamaruzzaman graduated from Temple University. Philadelphia (M.A.) and the international Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Kuala Lumpur (Ph.D.). She teaches comparative religions at International Islamic University, Malaysia.
3:00 PM-4:30 PM IN COMMERCE 1.33 Religion in the Quantum Age
Dr. Micheal Ledwith, Ph.D
To a degree rarely acknowledged by scientific theology and philosophy, fundamental religious beliefs come to us married to understandings of the nature of reality which have usually become hopelessly outmoded with the passage of time. To disentangle the beliefs themselves from their out-dated vehicles, and to further utilize contemporary insights into the nature of reality so as to produce a more profound understanding of belief, is a difficult task. While this has been attempted at a general level in some theological investigations, a re-statement of faith based on the revolutionary scientific understandings of the world current today is still awaited. This lecture attempts to tease out the fundamental categories of religion, (creation. redemption, what it means to grow spiritually, the nature of the human person, divine providence and free will, the Church, the Holy Spirit, and in what our destiny consists) in the light of quantum physics and relativity.
Micheal Ledwith was born in Ireland in 1942 and attended university from 1960 to 1971, specializing in philosophy and theology. After completing postgraduate studies, he was appointed lecturer in General Theology in 1971 at Ireland's Maynooth University, and Professor of Systematic Theology in 1976; Ireland's national seminary is also located at Maynooth. He served ten years as the university's President until 1994. His forthcoming book is The Ascent to God: The Soul's Journey Within.
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