Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

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

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10:00 AM-12:00 PM IN COMMERCE 4.15
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Ms. Barbara Kopit; Mr. Keith Cunningham; Cleve Jones; Mr. Carman Moore; Mr. Geoffrey Grundlingh
This discussion will be an opportunity for artists from all disciplines, and all who are interested to meet informally. network, and reflect upon common concerns. A roundtable and open discussion follows, topics will include: personal expression and community responsibility, creativity and spirituality, celebration, the power of symbols, the artist's role: creative solutions to social conflict. (Presented by the Arts Project and ArtSpirit.)
Barbara Kopit is a producer, writer, arts activist, and consultant to institutions promoting peace, environmental and interfaith initiatives. She was also the U.S. Director of PAND, an international network of concerned artists, performers, and filmmakers.
Keith Cunningham is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and a producer of the CPWR film and video festival. A former professor at Columbia College, he has worked with Joseph Campbell and is currently presenting seminars in Germany, Italy, France, and the United States.
Cleve Jones is a AIDS Activist and Founder of NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Carman Moore is a composer whose works have been performed worldwide. 1986-1996, composer-director of the American Dance Festival's composer/choreographer program. Artist-in-Residence for several years at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Geoffrey Grundlingh is a photographer and professor of photography at the University of Cape Town. He is also an organizer of the recent "One City. Many Cultures" festival in Cape Town.
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10:00 AM-12:00 PM IN COMMERCE 1.37 Interfaith Perspectives on Religious Freedom: European and American Perspectives
Dr. J. Gordon Melton; Dr. Cole Durham; Massimo Introvigne
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The program will feature presentations from around the world on the problems of diverse faith communities faced with religious discrimination and persecution. Session time will then be devoted to reflecting upon the manner in which interfaith dialogue and action can create a global climate favorable to religious liberty. Dr. Introvigne will speak about the religious liberty in the new Europe. Dr. Melton will speak about the global pluralism as a threat to religious freedom. Dr. Durham will speak about legal struggles for religious liberty. This program is sponsored by the Institute for World Spirituality. Dr. J. Gordon Melton is the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion (Santa Barbara, California) and the research director of the Institute of World Spirituality (Chicago, IL). He is the author of more than 30 books on contemporary religion and is the author/editor of the multi-volume International Directory of the World's Religions, the first volume of which appeared in 1998.
Dr. Cole received an AB 1972, and a JD 1975, from Harvard University. University Honors included managing editor, Harvard International Law Journal; note editor, Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk for Judge Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1975-76; Max Rheinstein Fellow, West Germany, 1979; secretary and member, American Association for the Comparative Study of Law executive committee; chair, Comparative Law Section, American Association of Law Schools. 1993; chair, Law and Religion Section; member of several national advisory boards on church-state issues.
Dr. Massimo Introvigne is the director of the Centre for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) in Turin, Italy, and the author of more than 20 books on New Religions. He has been active through the 1990s on the issues facing minority religions from government attempts at suppression.
10:00 AM-1:30 PM IN COMMERCE 2.57 Interreligious Work in South America and the Caribbean
Rev. Luis M. Dolan, C.P.
The presentation will discuss the influences of Christianity.
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Buddhism, Hinduism and Baha'i in Latin America, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Trinidad, and it will discuss their influences on the indigenous spiritualities of these cultures. Topics will include the roles of the Sao Paulo group, CNBB, CONEI, the effectiveness of IRO in Trinidad and CISEI in the continent and the indigenous perspective in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, etc.
Father Luis M. Dolan, C. P. is a Catholic Passionist priest from Argentina who has a MA in Global Spirituality. He has worked on interreligious dialogues and cooperation in over 85 countries. He represents the Center for World Thanksgiving as an N. G. O. at the UN headquarters.
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10:00 AM-11:30 AM IN THEATER 4 Seeking the Common Core that Binds Us as One
Prof. Thomas D. Lynch; Dr. Ewert Cousins; Dr. Leonard Swidler; Ashok Gangadean
This panel explores how to seek the common core that binds us as one. Jonathan Granoff, of The Temple of Understanding. will chair the panel and there will be three presenters who will speak 10-15 minutes each. The panel will open itself to an open discussion with the audience and the panel on the topic. Thomas D. Lynch is a Professor of Public Administrations at Louisiana State University.
Dr. Ewert Cousins is Professor of Theology at Fordham University. Dr. Cousins has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University and New York University as well as Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the editor of the important twenty-five volume series World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest. He is author of World Spirituality: The Meeting of Mystical Paths and Christ of the 21st Century. Dr. Cousins is a leader in spiritual dialogue and Honorary Chair of GDI Dr. Leonard Swidler, Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University since 1966, is recognized internationally as a leader in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and the articulation of global ethics. He is an author of about sixty books and Co-Founder/ Director of Global Dialogue Institute (GDI). He and his wife Arlene founded in 1963, and he continues to edit the "Journal of Ecumenical Studies", a scholarly quarterly widely regarded as the most important ecumenical, interreligious and interideological publication in the world. Dr. Ashok Gangadean is Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College where he has taught for the past thirty one years. He was the first Director of the Gest Center for Cross-Cultural Study of Religion and has focused throughout his career on clarifying the dynamics of dialogue and discourse between diverse worldviews and polarized perspectives. He has sought to bring out the foundations of rationality between worlds in his books Meditative Reason: Towards Universal Grammar and Between Worlds: The Energence of Global Reason. He is also CoFounder/Director of GDI.
10:00 AM-11:30 AM IN THEATER 6 Testimonies To Mutual Irradiation-Session II
Dr. Dick Luecke; Imam Rashied Omar; Rev. Marcus C. R. Braybrooke; Rabbi Herb Bronstein; H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati; Sr. Pratima Desai; Ms. Sandya Rao; Mr. Donald Postema; Mr. Theodore Rojahn; Fr. George Kilcourse; Rev. Ken Phifer; Sr. Georgene Wilson; Dr. Achahn Phangcham
The workshop starts with side by side silence with individuals in groups of 2's and 3's. This prompts a clarification of "Mutual Irradiation" through inter-religious encounter. (Distinguished from simple exclusion, inclusion, separate paths, separate cultural-linguistic houses.) The "Mutual Irradiation" process opens the door for the examination of validity and value in inter-religious relationships. The workshop will end when individuals come face-to-face with one another.
Dick Luecke is a city pastor in Chicago USA, a philosophy teacher, a charter member of Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality, and a Director of Urban Studies on work, health, and the constitution of cities. He was an organizer of "Voices of the Dispossessed" for the 1993 Parliament. Imam Rashied Omar is an Imam at a Mosque in the City of Cape Town, and is Co-Chair of Parliament of the World's Religions, South Africa. He is also the national Secretary of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, and has a Masters Degree in Comparative Religion from the University of Cape Town.