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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Roman Catholicism in Dialogue
Rev. Roger Hickley
In this presentation, Father Hickley of the Centre for Christian Spirituality will explore Catholicism's role in Interreligious Dialogue. He will focus particularly on his own experience as a Catholic in South Africa.
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The Sacred Spaces
Fr. Roger Hickley, a Roman Catholic priest was born in 1941. He holds a licentiate in Theology from Gregorian University.
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Mr. Jan Horn
This lecture and video presentation will explore the values and sacred practices of the San people of South Africa - the first peoples of this country. Also explored will be how ten years of TV documentary filming with the San have taught the presenter values and practices he found mirrored in the shrines of Tibet and Nepal when he climbed Mount Everest in 1998. Mr. Jan Horn has been producing documentaries for 25 years on the topics of archaeology, ancient civilisations and mountaineering. He also received training in nuclear and solid state physics from the University of Stellenbosch.
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Spirituality and Social Change
Ms. Kosha Shah
The lecture will largely contain perspectives from Sri Aurobindo's books The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, which is a social and political philosophy with a spiritual basis and goal. There will be a brief word on the Sri Aurobindo Research Foundation's history and its philosophy of how all spiritual paths can help bring about social change. A great deal of attention will also be spent on how spirituality need not be divorced from any other aspect of life and how spirituality is something entirely different from morality, ethics, and religion. Some examples from Indian History suggest future possibilities for like minded people from different spiritual backgrounds to come together and work with a deeper perspective on the problems faced by humanity today.
Ms. Kosha Shah, director of the Sri Aurobindo, is looking to develop the and apply the social, political, economic, and educational thought of Sri Aurobindo in the context of the problems faced by humanity today. She recently organized a seminar on the Indian Constitution based upon her thesis,
which is also offered as a Gift of Service at the Parliament. She is interested in networking with like-minded people from different spiritual paths.
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Two Trees Planted in the Midst of an Enigmatic Garden: A Study of the Biblical Archetype of Centre
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Rabbi Yosef Wosk
An original investigation of " the centre" from four points of view: academic critical, comparative religion and mythology, traditional Jewish sources, and narrative kinesthetic will be discussed in this lecture. It is based upon Genesis 2:8-9, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden.
Rabbi Wosk holds doctorates in interdisciplinary Studies (Religion and Literature) and in Psychology, as well as Masters degrees from Harvard Divinity School and Yeshiva University. He has served as a Rabbi for more than twenty years and taught all ages, from preschool through university. He is also a published author and former host of a television
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World Vaishnava Association and the Presentation of Monotheism in Hinduism
Mr. Acharya Das; Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti
It started in Bengal, when Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared 500 years ago. He predicted that the meditation in the holy names of Krishna would spread to every town and village of the world. In 1995 many missions of the Guadiya Vaisnavas joined together to form the World Vaishnava Association. A decentralized tradition of Guru Disciple relationship brings members of different branches together to help each other in many ways.
Acharya Das was born in New Zealand and became a monk at the age of 19. He is currently the secretary of the WVA, a member of WVA environmental committee, and travels the world in the service of the Chaitanya mission.
Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti is the coordinator of the WVA committee, and is Siddhanta-Guru Varga Dignity Member of WVA Environmental committee. A monk since 1971, Swami Ba Paramadvaiti started the Vrinda Mission in South America, which now includes centers in 20 other countries.
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A Kaleidoscope of Christian Spirituality: Celtic Spirituality and its Relevance to Africa
Prof. Margaret Donaldson
There are many interesting parallels between Celtic Spirituality and African Spirituality. Moreover, the spirituality of Celtic Christianity in Ireland, Wales and Scotland was deeply influenced by pre-Christian Celtic culture, which was appropriated and 'baptised' rather than stamped out. This is in contrast to the African experience of the 19th century when missionaries, as men of their times, sought to destroy rather than preserve and transform the indigenous cultures. Thus Celtic Spirituality: reminds us of the need for reverence for the created world; and of the need for a holistic, all-embracing Christian faith; and presents a model for cultural continuity and transformation at a time when many churches are seeking ways to make Christianity more "African".
Margaret Donaldson lectures in Ecclesiastical History in the Divinity Department of Rhodes University, from 1975-1995. Her teaching included both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in 19th and 20th century South African church & missionary history, the Anglo-Saxon church, Celtic Christianity and Christian Spirituality. Now retired, she continues to engage in teaching, workshops and retreats on Celtic spirituality.
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The Challenge of Being a Bahá'í During Apartheid Ms. Tahirih Matthee
This lecture will share with listeners the experiences of the presenter as a child growing up in a very poor neighborhood (Bonteheuwel, Cape Town) during the era of apartheid. The presenter illustrates how her experience with the Bahá'í faith, which teaches the oneness of the human race, was in stark contrast to the government's apartheid policies.
Tahirih Matthee is a member of Baha'i Council of Western Cape and a member of the Inter-religious Commission on Crime and Violence in the Western Cape. Tahirih also serves as a Trustee of the PWR board.
3:00 PM-4:00 PM IN SCIENCE 3.81 Cloak The Earth
Ms. Louise Todd Cope
The workshop will allow participants to learn about the Cloak the Earth project, which seeks to wrap a continuous collection of prayer flags around the Earth. Participants in this workshop