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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tions of our changing understanding of reality. Quantum physics has rejected the notion of an objective reality that exists independent of observers, and the notion of rhetoric as epistemic has also questioned the underlying assumptions of modernistic conceptualizations of science and language. The rhetoric of physics offers a synthesis of these two areas of inquiry, and sug. gests important directions for rhetoricians interested in articulating a holistic and transformative vision of rhetoric. Mark Lawrence McPhail-Associate Professor, Department of
Communication, University of Utah; this essay appeared in the Spring 1992 edition of the Southern Communication Journal.
Eliade, this paper will attempt to demonstrate that there is a type of hermeneutical experience, at once deeply sympathetic and yet still critical, in which the researcher actually experiences the mystical depths of the tradition under study. The paper will conclude by suggesting that such sophisticated forms of encounter and interpretation might serve us well as models for our own attempts to understand and relate to other religious traditions. Like Massignon, Scholem, and Eliade, we too, under the proper conditions, might discover in them a "visitation of the Stranger." Jeffrey S. Kripal-Ph.D., History of Religions, University of Chicago
Divinity School; dissertation, "Kali's Child: the Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa," focused on Tantric elements in the "secret talk" of Ramakrishna; presently holds the Vira I. Heinz Professorship in Religion at the rank of Assistant
Professor at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA. 10:30 AM–11:00 AM Sandburg Wing #8 "Spirituality and Inquiry" Donald D. Tukey This session inquires into the relationship between spirituality and traditional modes of inquiry. The focus will be on Spirituality and inquiry, "spiritual inquiry", the role of symbols in spiritual inquiry, and spiritual inquiry and human devlopment. The lecture will be followed by a brief question and answer period.
3:00-3:30 PM Sandburg Wing #8 "Physics as a Sacred Process: Listening to the Universe Within" Daniel L.Cox In this presentation, Professor Cox will offer his de veloping views of the state of modern science and a possible therapeutic path from his perspective as a practicing theoretical physicist. He will describe the mind/body/spirit/practice rifts in physics. He will describe his own experiences in physics, as listening rather than controlling. He will also propose changes in the formats of teaching, researching, reporting, and physics. Daniel L. Cox-Ph.D., Cornell University, Postdoctoral research,
University of California at San Diego, 1984-86); Professor of Physics, Ohio State University; has published over 40 papers; recipient, the Clark Award for excellence, Cornell, 1981.
11:00 AM–11:30 AM Sandburg Wing #8 "Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds Between Art and Religion" Earle J. Coleman This presentation will explore the consideration that all art is religious and all religion is artistic. A look into the common denominators of art and religion will reveal the inseparability of the aesthetic and the spiritual. It will also be proposed that since values-whether religious or aesthetic-belong to human nature, if humans are to be whole, religion and art must be interrelated. Earle J. Coleman Ph.D. in Chinese philosophy, University of Hawaii;
author, Philosophy of Painting by Shih T'ao; editor, Varieties of Aesthetic Experience; contributing editor, Menorah Review, member, Society of Christian Philosophers, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Society for Buddhist Christian Studies, and the Judaic Culture Advisory Committee of Virginia Commonwealth University.
SESSION 6 4:00 PM–4:30 PM Sandburg Wing #8 "The Social Significance of a Western Belief in Reincarnation and Karma: A Study of the Self-Realization Fellowship" Jane Dillon Founded in 1920 by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Self-Realization Fellowship is one of the oldest Eastern religious organizations in the U.S. The central thesis of this paper is that the SRF Kriya Yogic way of life and the attendant beliefs in reincarnation and karma have the possibility for broad acceptance in the Western world as sources of meaning and philosophy for explaining the human condition. This presentation examines the meaning of a Western belief in a reincarnationist theodicy, its impact within the "new" Eastern religions, and the social significance for Western society of a fundamental transformation of a religious knowledge from an salvationist to a reincarnationist paradigm. Reincarnationist Theory is proposed as an explanation of social action based on human spiritual relations. Jane Dillon--Ph.C., Sociology, University of California, San Diego;
doctoral dissertation is the result of a seven-year ethnographic study of the Self-Realization Fellowship, its teachings, and the Kriya Yoga way of life practiced by monastic and lay disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda; currently developing a Program for the Social Scientific Study of Reincarnationist Theory.
SESSION 5 2:00 PM–2:30 PM Sandburg Wing #8 "Sri Aurobindo, The Anthropic Principle, and the Standard Model" Ulrich Mohrhoff The one consistently objectifiable structure created by physicists-the theories collectively known as the Standard Model will be shown in the workshop to be to a great extent derivable on a priori grounds, all but coterminous with the preconditions of evolution. Why this should be so is examined in the light of Sri Aurobindo, philosophy of spiritual evolution. The relevance of Sri Aurobindo's thought to several important scientific and philosophical will be demonstrated. Ulrich Mohrhoff-studied physics at the University of Goettingen and
at the Indian Institute of Science, Banglore; resident at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India, since 1977.
2:30 PM–3:00 PM Sandburg Wing #8 "Quantum Inferential Leaps: The Rhetoric of Physics" Mark Lawrence McPhail Contemporary connections between rhetoric and physics provide the basis for a consideration of the epistemological implica
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Sandburg Wing #8 "Predestination, the Qur'an, and the Theory of Relativity" Dr. T.O. Shanavas The Qur'an states that God knows the past, the present, and the future of man (Chapter 2, verse 255). The West argues, quoting the above verse, that Islam is fatalistic. This paper explores the question of human freedom of choice in the light of God's knowledge of the future. Dr.T.O. Shanavas-M.D.,F.A.A.P; Fellow, American Academy of
Pediatrics; Fellow, American College of International Physicians Member, Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, Ohio.
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