Parliament of Worlds Religion 1993 Chicago IL

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
10:00 AM-11:00 AM Burnham Wing #1
"An Experiment in Ecumenical Architecture: the Vivekananda Rock Memorial"
Dr. Michael D. Rabe
On Christmas day, eight months before the first Parliament of Religions, Swami Vivekananda swam out to rocks just offshore from the southern tip of India, and there received his vision to go West. Seventy years later, on the eve of Vivekananda's birth centenary, planning was inaugurated for commemorative structures at the site that would boldly integrate several disparate traditions of sacred architecture. As designed by Sthapati S.K. Achari, the resultant pair of buildings and surrounding precincts, constitute a fitting visualization of what Vivekananda called "Hinduism-a Universal Religion."
Dr. Michael D. Rabe-son of Protestant missionaries; raised in an ecumenical community in South India; undergraduate studies in philosophy at Houghton College and Benares Hindu University; doctorate in South Asian Art History at the University of Minnesota; presently an Associate Professor of Art History at Saint Xavier University and an Adjunct South Asia specialist on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; has recently completed a monograph on the famous Great Bas-relief at Mamallapuram, known alternatively as Arjuna's Penance or the Descent of the Ganges.
10:00 AM-11:00 AM Burnham Wing #2 "Ecology as a Woman's Concern"
Ms. Pat Smuck
A joint program of the National Council of Women and the Wildlife Foundation.
Ms. Pat Smuck-Catholic laywoman; member, National Council of Catholic women; one of the planners of the Marian Dialogue, a yearlong joint program between Catholics and Episcopalians in Chicago.
10:00 AM-11:30 AM Burnham Wing #4
"Dialogue with Baba Virsa Singh: Transforming Agriculture and Community" Baba Virsa Singh
An opportunity for open dialogue with Baba Virsa Singh, drawing on his 30 years of practical experience in inspiring people of all faiths and all sectors of society to work together voluntarily, out of love for God, transforming thousands of acres of barren wastelands into extraordinarily productive croplands for the sake of the hardworking poor. Hopeless people who have been rejected by society are also restored to productive life.
Baba Virsa Singh-Gobind Sadan, India; spiritual leader from the Sikh tradition; blessed since childhood with an intense love of God; he teaches while working in the fields, empowering all who meet him from international scientists and religious scholars, to the very poor-to overcome otherwise intractable social problems.
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Burnham Wing #5 "Creating an Interfaith Environmental Action Coalition How to Get Started"
Elizabeth U. Dyson, MBA
Presentation and facilitated participatory discussion, begins with sharing experience of the Minnesota group in developing a coalition, planning conferences, and sustaining ecology core groups within faith communities. Models from Seattle, Washington, and Geneva, Illinois, will also be considered. Participants will then be led through the process of creating a vision of what they want on behalf of their environment, and how this can be enhanced by their interfaith groups. Finally, strategies for taking "first steps" to actualize this vision will be brought forth. The results of this work as a group will
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be mailed to participants within a week (for mailing cost). Elizabeth U. Dyson, MBA-President of the North American
Conference on Christianity and Ecology (NACCE), and editor of the NACCE newsletter, Earthkeeping News; co-founder of the Minnesota Interfaith Ecology Coalition (MIEC); has worked with churches and community groups for the past 25 years, using participatory methods in organizing and problem solving; has lived in India, Iran, Lebanon, Germany and several U.S. cities.
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Clark Wing #1
"World Scriptures: Learning from Other
Traditions-Part III"
Hon. Voyce Durling-Jones; Dr. Ursula King; Dr. Seshagiri Rao; Dr. Larry Shinn; Sulayman Nyang
This session includes the following contributions: Dr. Ursula King "Hindu Scriptures for Other Faiths"; Dr. Seshagiri Rao, "What Christian Can Learn from Hindu Scriptures"; Dr. Larry Shinn, "Islamic Scriptures for Other Faiths"; Dr. Sulayman Nayang. Hon. Voyce Durling-Jones-Chairman of Red Indian Society of the Americas, Dallas, Texas; Presiding Council Member, Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace; Coordinating Committee Member, Indigenous Peoples Alliance on Human Rights; Speaker on Sacred Ecology, Vice-President of Isthmus Institute.
Dr. Ursula King-Professor and Chair, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, U.K.
Dr. Seshagiri Rao-Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia; President, International Association of Gandhian Studies, Philadelphia; Editor, World Faiths Encounter.
Dr. Larry Shinn-Professor of Religion and Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Bucknell University
Sulayman Nayang-Chairman of the African Studies Department, Howard University; President, Association of Muslim Social Scientists of America; President, Center for American-Muslim Research and Information.
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Clark Wing #2
"Challenges of Parenting for a New World Order
Dr. Anne R. Breneman
This workshop will present the fundamental principles of parenting from a Bahá'í perspective and explore how parents can train their children from infancy to love all humanity, to respect all religions, to accept the equality of the sexes, to see the entire earth as one fatherland, to communicate with others effectively, to be staunch in faith, to strive for excellence, and to dedicate themselves to service to God and their fellow man.
Dr. Anne R. Breneman-member, National Bahá'í Education Committee and Task Force since 1987; professor of Social Science and currently the chairperson of her department at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Clark Wing #3
"The Role of Women in the
African-American Church"
Rev. Dr. Willie T. Barrow
Rev. Barrow will provide insights as to the various roles women play within the African American Church, the significance of their contribution, the challenges they face as they move to leadership roles, and the need for the church's recognition of the importance of fully utilizing the talents of women in the church. Rev. Dr. Willie T. Barrow-one of three original staff members for Operation Breadbasket, now known as Operation Push; n addition to being a gifted leader, national political organizer and international civil rights advocate; ordained minister in the Church of God; skilled in breaking barriers in a male-dominated profession.