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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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Adams Ballroom
"Sand Painting-The Sacred Language" Alfred Yazzie; Jennie Joe
The sand painting ritual is the most sacred healing ceremony of the Navajo. The sand painting represents the gods and re-enacts creation to restore balance and harmony to the individual. Alfred Yazzie-Navajo, Healer, Spiritual leader
Jennie Joe-Navajo, RN, MPH, Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Family Medicine; Director of Native American Research and Training Center, University of Arizona.
10:00 AM-10:45 AM Crystal Room
"The Christ of the Twenty-First Century" Prof. Ewart Cousins
Christianity, along with the other world religions, must enlarge its horizons to respond creatively to the greatest transformation of consciousness in human history. This echoes the transformation that occurred in the first millennium BCE, when there emerged what Karl Jaspers called "axial consciousness," the individual selfreflective critical consciousness that has been dominant in the world to our time. At present, we are moving from individual to global consciousness. The religions must develop a new spirituality of matter and the earth to bring their wisdom to shed light upon the solutions to problems facing ecology, peace, economic justice, and freedom from oppression. In this age of multi-culturalism, the great religious traditions must appropriate in a new way the insights which will guide the human community beyond fragmentation and destructive power, to a deep spiritual unity.
Prof. Ewart Cousins-Professor of Theology, Fordham University; General Editor of the twenty-five volume series, World Spirituality; author, The Christ of the Twenty-First Century; and Global Spirituality: the Meeting of Mystical Paths: former consultant to the Vatican Secretariat on Inter-Religious Dialogue.
10:00 AM-10:45 PM Grand Ballroom
"The Relationship Between Sunyata and Compassion"
Samdhong Rinpoche
A conversation about the implications of the Buddhist teaching of sunyata ("emptiness") for the understanding and practice of the virtue of compassion.
Samdhong Rinpoche-Director, Institute of Higher Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Varanasi, India; Chief, Tibetan Delegation to the Parliament; Speaker, the Tibetan Assembly; scholar and spiritual master.
10:00 AM-10:45 AM Parlor H
"Healing and Wellness-May I Be Deserving of Good Health"
Mehroo M. Patel
"Ahmai Tanvo Dravatatem"-Avesta. The Avestan daily prayer of the Zoroastrias invokes a blessing of health on the one so deserving thereby imploring the devotee to live a lifestyle conducive to preserving and promoting health and preventing disease and ill health. This presentation will explore the truth of the above ancient prayer in the life of modern Zoroastrians.
Mehroo M. Patel-family physician in private practice; diplomate of the American Board of Family Physicians, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and College of Surgeons of Edinburg, Scotland; member of the Chicago Medical Society, Illinois State Medical Society, and American Medical Association; Director of the Board of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago and its Community Affairs and Program Coordinator.
Major Presentations
10:00 AM-10:45 AM Red Lacquer Room "The Catholic Church's Theology of the Religions"
Most Rev. Francesco Gioia
A survey of the praxis of interreligious dialogue by the Pope and Roman Curia including the Asissi Day of Prayer. The Catholic dialogue with the World Religions and the encounter with indigenous religious traditions. An articulation of the practical theology of religion operative in the Vatican today. Most Rev. Francesco Gioia-Delegate, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue Vatican City; former Archbishop of Camerino, San Severino Marche.
10:00 AM-10:45 AM Salon I
"Orthodox Christian Response to the Challenge of Global Poverty"
Mirko Dobrijevic
The mission of humanitarian aid being assumed by IOCC, International Orthodox Christian Charities, (a humanitarian agency of SCOBA, the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in the Americas) in Russia, the Balkans, Middle East, Africa, and throughout the world.
Mirko Dobrijevic-theologian; educator, Loyola University, Chicago; Regional Director and Executive Liason for International Orthodox Christian Charities in Serbia; consultant and spokesperson on civil disorder in the current Balkan War.
10:00 AM-10:45 AM State Ballroom "Religious Life"
Ven. M. Wipulasara Maha Thera; Ven. Dr. Ariyagnana (respondent); Ven. Dr. Vajiragnana (respondent)
This address, which will include a tribute to Anagarika Dharmapala, the Founder of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, who participated in the first World Parliament of Religions in 1893, will deal with the influence of religion on social, cultural, and economic life. It will also stress the importance of the religious life as a way to social harmony and universal peace. "I am of the opinion that religion is but one; expressed in so many ways by those who have experienced it, in terms of their own languages and selected concepts. As religion is but one, we have no barriers whatsoever, in getting together as religious people. The purpose of religion is to make people unite and to liberate from various bondages and limitations.""
Ven. M. Wipulasara Maha Thera-General Secretary of the Maha
Bodhi Society of India; General Secretary, World Buddhist Sangha Council; Chief High Priest, Param Dhamma Chetiya Pirivena (a training center for novice monks), in Ratmalana, Sri Lanka; specialist in Buddhist Art, Painting, and Sculpture.
Ven. Dr. Ariyagnana-Maha Bodhi Society of India. Ven. Dr. Vajiragnana-Maha Bodhi Society of India.
11:00 AM-11:45 AM Crystal Room
"An International Interfaith Center" Rev. Marcus Braybrooke; Dr. Robert Traer This workshop will explain the purposes and the program of the International Interfaith Center which is being developed in Oxford in cooperation with several of the colleges there by the World Congress of Faiths and the International Association for Religious Freedom. In addition to research in the field of interfaith relations, this Center will continue the coordination among interfaith organizations after the IIOCC completes its work in this regard in the fall of 1993. Rev. Marcus Braybrooke-Anglican clergyman; Chair, World Congress of Faiths; Chair, International Interfaith Organizations
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