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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Critical Issues
1999 PARLIAMENT
CRITICAL ISSUES
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3:00 PM-3:45 PM IN ENGINEERING 3.44 Spiritual Narcissism and Religious Tribalism: Perspectives from Contemporary Psychoanalysis Dr. Robert L. Moore
The lecture will begin with the topic of narcissism recruiting religion into its service. It will touch on the dynamics of spiritual narcissism, and also the role of religious tribalism. The lecture will conclude with the imaging of a treatment plan to change narcissism into community. This program is sponsored by the Institute for World Spirituality.
Dr. Robert Moore is a psychoanalyst and co-director of the program in Jung and Spirituality at the Institute for World spirituality. He is professor of psychology and spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary and is founder and President of the Institute for World spirituality.
3:00 PM-3:30 PM IN THEATER 8
Spirituality and Global Ethics- The Hyphen that Joins and the Buckle that Binds
Dr. L.M. Singhvi
In the clash of ideas and in the midst of competing faiths, there is a ray of hope in the resurgence of spirituality and global ethics, which joins us all through our common humanity and leads us to a common agenda. Faith traditions must engage with each other to find a substratum of shared values, concerns, and methodologies in order to move towards an optimum framework of mutual consultation, collaboration, spirituality, and global ethics. An agenda, an action program, and habits of working together have to be evolved. We made a beginning in 1993 in Chicago and must carry it to fulfillment and fruition. The presentation will emphasize that this must be the millennium message of the Parliament of the World's Religions on the threshold of the 21st century.
Patron of the Institute of Jainology and leading scholar of Jainism and of Vedic and Indic religions. Member of World Faiths Development Dialogue Steering Group.
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3:00 PM-3:45 PM IN ENGINEERING 3.60 Sri Ramakrishna: Embracing the Divine
Ms. Audrey E. Kitagawa
Sri Ramakrishna said, "I am the string running through all the pearls," the pearls being the individual religions of the world. He taught universal respect and tolerance for all religions, and came to harmonize them. This is the essential theme of the presentation. Also, discussed will be the spiritual concepts of meditation, discrimination, renunciation and divine love and, the actual practice of moving through life daily from the heart, our center of divine love.
Audrey E. Kitagawa was a practicing attorney for 20 years. She gave up her law career to fulfill a request that she carry Sri Ramakrishna's fight to the world. She publishes an internationally distributed newsletter called the SRK Spiritual Family News which includes testimonials about life transformations, essays about Sri Ramakrishna and his teachings, memoirs of Divine Mother, and accounts of spiritual family activities. She has been invited to lead meditation sessions and to deliver lectures at private homes of spiritual family members, conferences, universities, and various groups. The pace of her schedule is as hectic as was her legal career, and she spends much time traveling outside Hawaii.
4:00 PM-4:45 PM IN ENGINEERING 3.15 A Partnership in Faith Based African-American Community and Social Development: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century
Rev. Mangedwa C. Nyathi
This lecture will address the multiple factors which have led to significant declines in the quality of urban life in Detroit, Michigan. Furthermore, efforts to redevelop African American 174
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communities, the social experiments which have taken place to correct the plight of people of African descent in American society, and the under-utilization of the Black Church (the community anchor, beacon, and guiding light) will also be discussed. However, the major focus of the lecture will be centered on "faith-based" social development, and the partnership created between Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and the Kmart Corporation of America which opened a 24 hour, seven-day-a-week, one-stop shopping, retail outlet in the Detroit, Michigan community served by Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.
Rev. Nyathi was born on January 7, 1952 in a Western Native Township near Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1962 he and his family were forcibly removed to Soweto under South African racial segregation laws. In January 1971, he began his theological training at the AICA Theological Seminary in Alice and in July 1971, was ordained in Middledrift at the National Baptist Convention of South Africa. In December 1973, he received his diploma in Theology from the Southern Theological College of independent Churches. He was appointed Pastor of Kagiso Baptist Church in Krugersdorp, South Africa and remained there until his departure for the United States in January 1975. Rev. Nyathi serves as a consultant to churches on the formation of Social Service programs and has given lectures and conducted workshops on urban ministry at the local and national level. In 1990 at Nelson Mandela Rally Day, he was honored with a resolution by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young for his advocacy to abolish apartheid.
4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN ENGINEERING 3.68 Adolescent Moral Reasoning
Dr. Salie Abrahams
This lecture will explore adolescent moral reasoning and development and how it is influenced by context and culture. The presentation will illustrate Dr. Abrahams ethnographic research with African adolescents, and will highlight their thoughts and words.
Dr. Salie Abrahams lives in South Africa, and has a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University. Her specialization is in Human Development and Psychology.
4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN ENGINEERING 1.31 Caring for Creation/Earth Day 2000 Worldwide Program
Rev. Dr. Donald B. Conroy
This seminar is designed to introduce religious and spiritual people to the worldwide Earth Day 2000 "Caring for Creation" theme, website, and action program. Each session will offer leaders free support materials, funding opportunities, and their own website on the World Wide Web/Internet as a key part of the "Caring for Creation" campaign and theme designated by the International Earth Day Network.
Dr. Donald Conroy, president of the International Consortium on Religion and Ecology, is a widely known speaker, religious leader in interreligious and ecumenical affairs, and organizer of environmental/ecological programs. He is co-author of the forthcoming book, Earth At Risk, to be published by Prometheus Press for Earth Day 2000 (April, 2000) and he is a theologian, teaching at the Washington Theological Union (USA).
4:00 PM-4:30 PM IN SCIENCE 2.65 Human Rights and Jainism
Dr. Kumarpal Desai
Jainism had advocated unity of mankind, shunning discrimination based on cast, creed, or color. It respects human dignity and lays equal emphasis on equal rights. It believes in free flow of communication of thought as much as it believes in giving quarter to opposite point of view. This approach is embedded in its philosophy of anekanant, which stresses the fact that no one must think that one's own view is the right view but consideration be given to others' point of view also.