Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
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1 9 9 9 PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS DIALOGUE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
11:00 AM-12:00 PM IN THEATER 1 Religion, Secularism, and God
10:00 AM–11:30 AM IN COMMERCE 1.33 Practicing Respectful Presence: A Reformed Christian Model for Interreligious Understanding and Cooperation Rev. Charles R. White Interfaith dialogue appears to be a model that has arisen in academic settings, beginning with the modern comparative study of religions. There is a need for an alternative model, one based on living experiences of persons in congregations. This workshop will demonstrate the possibility of respectful presence emerging as a model, at least in the North American context. The presenter has more than 20 years of experience in various interfaith engagements. Rev. Charles White is one of the founders of the North American Interfaith Network INAIN). He is a pastor and teacher with management experience in interfaith organizations. He has been an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church since 1968, and has been assisting this denomination to develop respectful presence as a model for interfaith understanding and cooperation. He is a member of the Interfaith Relations Commission of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan Language, according to religion, is a phenomenon that is both human and natural in its connection with God. Some other languages (eg that of science) are also needed for our practical and intellectual purposes. God will not mind this temporary descent/abstraction from His vicinity if humans do not forget to come back to Him. Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan, a graduate of science (1952), Muslim Theology 1956) and Western Philosophy (PhD, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), taught Western and Islamic Philosophy at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and various academic institutions in the US. He is a Trustee of CPWR and the international Peace Council and convener of International Association of Muslims for Inter-Religious Relations
10:00 AM–11:00 AM IN COMMERCE 3.60 United Religions 1993, 1999 and Beyond-A Progress Report and Formulation of Future Direction
Mr. Rohinton M. Rivetna A recipe for the formation of a United Religions was offered at the Parliament in 1993. Since that time, considerable development has taken place. We shall examine the goals. present status and formulate future direction. Rohinton M. Rivetna is a founding member of the Zoroastrian Association of Chicago, Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and a spirit for the formation of United Religions Organizations.
2:00 PM–2:45 PM IN COMMERCE 1.37 A Christian Spirituality: A Gandhi Critique Dr. Michael Battle The presentation will examine the problems within conventional Western spirituality. More specifically, the presentation will echo some of Gandhi's criticisms of Christianity and call for a more communal spirituality. The presentation will conclude with some suggestions on how Western spirituality can be reconstructed as friore community based. Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Black Church Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, USA. A priest in the Episcopal Church, Michael Battle has taught spirituality and moral theology since 1995 at University of South's School of Theology. He is the author of Reconciliation. The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu (1997) and is currently at work on A Christian Spirituality of Forgiveness. A Ghandian Critique, a book co-authored with Arun Ghandi, the grandson of Mahatma Ghandi. He has worked as an inner city chaplain with Tony Carnpolo Ministries, and overseas in Uganda and Kenya with the Plowshares Institute. A participant and worship committee member of the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches, he has served on its central committeees in Geneva and Johannesburg. A research fellow in residence with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. Battle was ordained by the Archbishop in Cape Town, South Africa. He holds certification in spiritual direction from the Shaler Institute.
10:00 AM–10:45 AM IN THEATER 4 Women in Islam: (Sufi Women and Human Rights)
Dialogue
Dr. Seyedeh Nahid Angha
2:00 PM–3:30 PM IN SCIENCE 2.70 The lecture will begin with a brief discussion of the historical
A Way for Religion and Spirituality to Morph from role of women in Islam. Dr. Angha will then address current
Root Cause of War to Culture of Peace: The Hague conceptual issues within the Muslim world, such as its cultural
Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century and religious values. Looking toward the next century and the increasing opportunities for women, she will introduce the Sufi
Ms. Kathy Uhler; Mr. Bawa Jain Preminder; Rev. Park Women Organizations (SWO), as a humanitarian, non-political,
Hee Soo; Mr. Leonard Marks; Sr. Georgene Wilson non-sectarian organization.
The panel discussants will present The Hague Agenda to the Dr. Sevedeh Nahid Angha, Ph.D., is the co-founder and co-director of
Parliament of the World's Religions as a Gift of Service from the the International Association of Sufism (AS), founder of Sur Women Organization (SWO), the executive editor of Sufism: An Inquiry, lan
thousands of participants of The Hague Appeal for Peace international quarterly journal), and the main NGO representative of the
Conference (11-15 May 1999). Each panelist will highlight how IAS to the United Natioris. She is an internationally known author and a
The Hague Agenda serves also as a Call to Religion to major Muslim Sufi teacher. She is President of the San Francisco's
their adherents to work together-within and across Interfaith Center at the Presidio.
traditions to address critical social issues of the day. Kathy Uhler is the Chair of The Hague Focus Group on Religion and
Spirituality and Co-Director of Fransiscans International 11:00 AM-12:30 AM IN THEATER 4
Bawa Jain Preminder, an adherent of Jainism, is Director for International Calling from the Corners of the World: Dangers
& UN Affairs for the Interfaith Center of New York, and Trustee for the and Opportunities for Indigenous Spiritual
Parliament of the World's Religions. Traditions
Rev. Park Hee Soo (Chung Sook) is a Won Buddhist abbess who serves in
Seoul, Korea Mr. Robert Walter
Leonard Marks has been teaching self-healing meditation classes for
many years and was the editor of a meditation book entitled, Realize A panel of spokespersons for indigenous spiritual traditions to
What You Are. He is a former U.S. Federal prosecutor, Watergate speak on the necessity of preserving all the sacred paths of the
consultant, trial lawyer, and author of various newspaper articles. He is human family
also the President of the New York Lawyers Alliance for World Security
and the founder of the Co-Existence Center of Baruch College. Robert Walter is the Exccutive Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and was Campbell's editor on The Atlas of World Mythology.
Sr. Georgene Wilson, Order of St. Francis, is both a facilitator and a witness in this lecture. She is a contemplative and a teacher of spirituality. who lives, moves, and has her being at Wisdom Webbings Anchorhold in Wheaton, Illinois, USA.
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