Parliament of Worlds Religion 2004 Barcelona

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

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Program Descriptions
Thursday, July 8, 2004 INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Seminar on Religion and Peace and is a contributing author of The Community of Religions. Brother Wayne Teasdale, Ph.D., is a Roman Catholic lay monk and noted author of The Mystic Heart: Finding a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions and A Monk in the World. He serves on the Baord of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and is a Counselor for the InterSpiritual Dialogue Action Community.
descendents. Questions of land and people are connected to the way in which each group reads its sacred stories. This workshop will explore how these stories can be both a potential source of conflict and potential source for healing in the struggle between the Palestinians and Israelis.
Rabbi Knobel, Ph.D., has served as Rabbi at the Beth Emet Synagogue since 1980. He has published papers and articles on a wide variety of subjects, and is currently working on a new siddur while serving as Chair of the Liturgy Committee for the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Tenzin Gyatzo, His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet, the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people, has received many international awards, including the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.
Rashied Omar is a Trustee of CPWR; Imam, Cope Town, South Africa, coordinator, program in religion conflict, and peace building, University of Notre Dame, US
Going Beyond Cultural Ignorance and Dualistic Thought Dr. Deepak Chopra Multiuse (1800) Spanish/English/Catalan
Ethical Banking and Religious Communities Joaquim Sabater Joan Cortadellas Angel Panyella Jordi Via Arcadi Oliveres
Room 112, Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
The key to the resolution of all problems confronting humanity is to go beyond the illusion of dualistic thinking. Perception, cognition, moods and emotions, social interactions and relationships, environmental situations, biological function and the forces in nature are inseparable expressions of a single reality. To make distinctions between the observer and the observed, biological organism and environment, leader and follower, friend and foe, me and other, mind and body, animate and inanimate is to fall into a trap. When one experientially understands the fallacy of dualistic thought, one recognizes that intention is a force of nature, that individual consciousness and universal consciousness are one, that healing is possible and that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."
Panel discussion in which each participant will talk about ethical banking from their own field of activity: university, peace, 'fourth world', international cooperation, social-work and the social economy. Every day everyone contributes to make our society more or less fair, and because of that, everyone has its responsibility.
Joaquim Sabater is President of the association "Ethical and Solidarity Financement" ("Finançament ètic i solidari". FETS) and General Secretary of "Caritas Diocesana" of Barcelona.
Deepak Chopra has written more than twenty-five books, and is the author of more than one hundred audio and videotape series, including five critically acclaimed programs on public television. Dr. Chopra currently serves as CEO and founder of The Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California.
Joan Cortadellas is Secretary of the Ethical and Solidarity Financement (FETS) organization and President of the association "Setem" in Catalonia.
Angel Panyella is a Member of the Ethical and Solidarity Financement (FETS) and president of the Catalan environment commission "Airs."
INTERRELIGIOUS 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Jordi Via is Director of "Arç cooperativo", an entity associated with the Ethical and Solidarity Financement (FETS), and a member of the network of "solidarity economies" and of the Higher Council of Cooperation.
Middle-East Stories: The Significance of the Holy Land in Our Sacred Texts Rabbi Peter Knobel Imam Rashied Omar
Arcadi Oliveres is Honorary President of the Ethical and Solidarity Financement (FETS), President of the association "Justice and Peace" in Barcelona, Doctor of Economic Sciences and Professor of Economics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Room 111, Spanish/English/Catalan Interactive Workshop
The three Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - are scripturally based. They trace their origins to the God's covenant with Abraham and the relationships between his
Walking the Labyrinth as a Pathway of Peace Tricia Kibbe Barbara Ducharme Rev. Kathy Musser
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