Conference on World Religions 1994 07 NY Queens

Author(s): Council for The Conference on World Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Dr. William Vendley
Secretary-General, World Conference on Religion and Peace/International, largest international multi-religious organization committed to peace and shared, effective action. Has done path breaking work on the role of religions in creating peace. Former dean and professor of theology, R. C. Major Seminary, Huntington, L.I.
Dr. Daniel Gomez-Ibanez
Executive Director, 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago; Founder, Peace Council; Trustee, The Millenium Institute
Mother Teresa
Winner of Nobel Peace Prize. Founder and Mother General, Missionaries of Charity. Lives in Calcutta.
Dr. Anand Mohan
Secretary-Treasurer, Council of Hindu Temples of North America; on Queens College faculty since 1967, teaches philosophy and political science.
Al-Hajj Muhsin M. R. Alidina
Co-chair, Council for the Conference on World Religions; lexicographer, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania; educational consultant and teacher of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Imam Al-Khoei Foundation, New York.
Dr. Arvind Sharma
Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Montreal. Editor of Our Religions, published 1993 by Harper Collins in connection with Parliament of the World's Religions. Has written extensively on modern Hinduism and Swami Vivekananda.
Dr. Harnam Singh Shan
Project investigator for University Grants Commission, New Delhi; Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research; former head of Departments of Panjabi and Sikh Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Swami Tathagatananda
Leader, Vedanta Society of New York; senior monk, Ramakrishna order; educated in Calcutta; joined the order 1955; took final vows 1964; worked in several educational centers of the order in India before coming to the United States in 1977; author of several books on Vedanta and other subjects.
Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi
Secretary General of National Council on Islamic Affairs; Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley; specialist in U.S. constitutional law; author of ten books on international relations between U.S. and Muslim world; civil libertarian, active in interreligious affairs.
Pravrajika Bhaktiprana
Senior nun, Ramakrishna Order; associated with Vedanta Society of New York from 1945; from 1954 with Vedanta Society of Southern California, where she joined the Order same year; took final vows 1965; active in Interreligious Council of Southern California.
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