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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1999
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Creativity in Christian Prayer - Imaginative Prayer Session
Dr. Monty Jooste
This workshop will offer participants a brief presentation describing a method of prayer using meditation either on biblical material or in the form of a visualisation using one's imagination. This method can lead to a deeper experience of one's own spirit, and a response to and from God.
Dr. Jooste treats terminal patients and gives spiritual guidance to patients of all faiths at a local addiction centre.
4:00 PM-4:45 PM IN SCIENCE 3.45
The Fragrance of Friendship
Ms. Camille Helminski
Within the human journey it is often the friendship of kindred spirits that inspires us and renews our courage to continue in our efforts to enhance and expand the light that we know. During these moments, we will explore some of the possibilities of friendship elucidated within the path of Sufism, particularly through the words of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, " For God is the best of friends."
Camille Helminski is the Co-director of the Threshold Society. Threshold Productions, and has worked within the Mevlevi tradition of Sufism for 25 years. She has translated a number of classic Sufi texts into English, including two volumes of selections of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi's Mathnawi: Rumi Daylight and Jewels of Remembrance.
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN SCIENCE 2.74 Islam and Peace
Mr. Ejaz Ahmed Aslam
According to War-Ethics in Islam, terrorism is completely unjustified. It is necessary that the term 'terrorism' is clearly defined and the Islamic approach is also clearly worked out in this connection. Various forms of terrorism will be examined in this lecture.
Mr. Aijaz Aslam is a renowned Muslim religious leader in India. Currently, he is Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-islami, India.
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Mariannhill: 100 Years of Mission in KwaZulu Natal
Sr. Agnes Grasboeck
This lecture will use African ethnic dance and music as well as a video and slide presentation to describe the history and ministry of the Catholic Mission in South Africa. Participants will learn that the Marianhill Mission, founded in 1882 by Abbot Franz Pfanner of Austria, was at one time the largest Trappist Abbey in the world boasting a coomunity of 285 monks. Its pioneering work among the African people, in the religious, social, cultural, health and educational fields has had far reaching influence, providing lawyers, teachers, school principals, government ministers and such luminaries as the Zulu poet and linguist, Dr. B. W. Vilakasi.
Sr. Agnes Grasboeck CPS is a nun in the Order of the Precious Blood at Marianhill, KwaZulu Natal. She performs pastoral and social work in South Africa.
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN SCIENCE 2.73 Matthew for the Millennium
Dr. Ronald H. Miller
Matthew's gospel was chosen by the Christian community to be the first book of the Christian Testament. It has been understood as the book that defines the Church. This gospel also contains the largest collection of sayings attributed to Jesus. How should we read this document as we enter this new millennium? This is the question that will be addressed in this presentation.
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Dr. Ron Miller is the Chair of the Religion Department at Lake Forest College. He is also the Co-founder and Co director of Common Ground, and has a Ph.D. in Comparative Religions from Northwestern University.
4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN SCIENCE 3.46
Meditation for World Peace
Dr. Achahn Phangcham
Buddhists believe that peace can not be established until we establish peace in our own mind. Therefore, meditation instruction and practice can be used to create world peace. World peace can not be found through weapon production, as we do today. Buddhism teaches us not to go two ways to the extreme, mainly, material comfort and indulge oneself in physical pleasure. Buddhism also provides the world with a key to the Middle Way, known as the Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path is the way to balance the world towards spiritual and material advancement.
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Ven. Dr. Phangcham was the president of the Buddhist Council of the Midwest (BCM), from 1993-1997 and is currently president emeritus of the BCM. He has been on the Board of Trustees for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR) since 1993. He is also consultant to the International Buddhist Committee and coordinator of International Visahka Festival in Washington D.C. 1999.
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4:00 PM-4:45 PM IN SCIENCE 3.47 Native American Culture and Spirituality John Twobirds
This program looks at Native American Myths, legends, prophecies, rituals and ceremonies. The presenter brings his message and vision by teaching others how to carry the sacred medicine pipe, and through the ritual of the medicine lodge ceremony. He invites participants to learn how to be in balance, live in harmony, and walk in beauty.
John was born in 1942, and was taught the medicine and ways of several tribes: Choctaw, Ojibway, Navajo, Lakota, Creek, Sawnee, Aztec, Toltec and Maya. His teachings have been given to him through visions and by his own Elders. They do not belong to any particular tribe, but are generic, and therefore available to all people regardless of gender, race, colour or nationality.
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Ngaka Christ Paradigm
Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani
The workshop will explore Ngaka's (healers) relationship to Christ. Ngakas are very important in much of Africa because health and well-being are core concerns of African religions. There will also be some special attention given to Botswana (divine-healer) and how divination makes a healer complete and powerful. Finally, the workshop will look at the spiritual character of African traditions.
Gomang Seratwa has a M. Th. from Edinburgh University, U. K. and is a lecturer at the University of Botswana. His areas of study are religion, theology, history and education and he has done research in the phenomenological study of African traditions.
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