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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2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Space and Spirit Margaret Wertheim, producer of the Public Television documentary on Faith and Reason, and author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Images of Enlightenment/Slanted Truth Clifford Matthews, University of Illinois at Chicago, co-editor of Cosmic Beginnings and Human Ends: Where Science and Religion Meet
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Resources and Challenges Solomon Katz, anthropologist, University of Pennsylvania: Jewish
A scientist's questions for the millennium; how religion can be a resource/challenge for science. Philip Hefner, theologian, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Christian
A theologian's questions for the millennium; how science can be a resource/challenge for religion. Hamam Hadi, medicine, University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia: Muslim Religion as a resource for science. Pinit Ratanakul, religious studies, Mahidol University, Bangkok Buddhist Religion and science in a Buddhist perspective. Viggo Mortensen, theology, Aarhus University, Denmark; Christian
A model for dialogue; how the inter-religious dialogue is a model for the religion-science dialogue
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4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Cosmic Beginnings and Human Ends: Where do We Come From? What are We? Where are We Going? II. The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology
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Saturday, December 4, 1999 Organized by the Forum on Religion and Ecology to highlight the important roles religions play in constructing moral frameworks underlying human interactions with the environment. What are the promises and the problems with regard to this alliance? What can each religious tradition add to our global environmental ethic? Brief opening statements by panelists with different religious backgrounds will be followed by moderated panel discussions.
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Chair and Discussant: John Grim, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Panelists - Judaism: Mark Jacobs, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life Christianity: Stephen Scharper, University of Toronto Islam: Nargis Virani, Harvard University
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Methods and Issues of Dialogue between Science and Religion Satoto, medicine, Diponegro University Research Institute, Indonesia; Muslim Integrating scientific and religious paradigms for understanding the world. V.V. Raman, physics, Rochester (New York) Institute of Technology, native of India; Hindu Science and the spiritual vision; how science and spirituality can be related. Ghulam-Haider Aasi, religious studies, American College of Islam, Chicago, native of Pakistan, Muslim Science and the Qu'ran: how scientific knowledge can be interrelated with the Qu'ran. Norbert Samuelson, religious studies, Arizona State University Jewish Minds, emotions, and human beings: a Jewish perspective; focus on the life sciences. Ingrid Shafer, philosophy, University of the Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma, native of Austria; Roman Catholic What does it mean to be human Resources from the dialogue of religions and sciences.
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Chair and Discussant: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University Panelists - Hinduism: Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Jainism: Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University Buddhism: Kenneth Kraft, Lehigh University
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Chair and Discussant: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University Panelists-Confucianism: Tu Weiming. Harvard University Indigenous Traditions: Teresia Hinga, De Paul University II. Science and Religion: Resource and Challenge for Each Other in the Coming Millennium
Sunday, December 5, 1999 Organized by the Zygon Center for Religion and Science and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science to explore the possibility that long-evolved religious wisdom combined with significant scientific discoveries about the world and human nature can provide valid and effective guidance for enhancing human life. Presentations on this timely topic from different religious perspectives will consist of 20-minute summaries of papers that will be available to participants.
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. The Religion and Science Dialogue as a Gift to the Parliament and to the World Panel and group discussion will refer especially to the "Call to Guiding Institutions of the Parliament. Leaders: George Ellis, Mathematics, University of Cape Town: Christian Dhigboti K. Fiawoo, Anthropology, University of Lagos, Nigeria Ursula Goodenough, biology, Washington University, St. Louis, religious naturalist William Lesher, church leader and pastor, New Day International Foundation; Christian Andrea Ng'weshemi, chaplain, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Christian Karl Peters, philosophy, religious studies, Rollins College: Unitarian Universalist Ghulam-Heider Aasi, Solomon Katz, V.V. Raman, Satoto, and Ingrid Shafer (as listed above).
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