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
oneness. This program will accompany a series of Open Space sessions that will allow others to share their stories of transformation.
Global Council of the United Religions Initiative, and a founding member of the Bridge CC of the URI.
Asayo Horibe received her RPN degree from Mt. Sinai Hospital School of Nursing and has facilitated and assisted in organizing workshops on racism, religious diversity and Buddhism in the Midwestern United States. She has been President of the Buddhist Council of the Midwest since 1998.
Brian Conroy, an American Buddhist, is a nationally known storyteller in the United States and teaches folklore at San Jose State University in California. Brian uses music, drama, and song as tools to present his universal message of transformation, redemption, and enlightenment.
Omie Baldwin (Dine), MSW, LCSW organized the American Indian participation in the Parliament of the World's Religions in both Chicago and Cape Town. She is a therapist/clinical Social Worker at the University Health Services at the University of WisconsinMadison. Her interests and involvements include peace, social justice, and environmental issues with indigenous people.
The Global Imperative for Interfaith Education: Symposium on Interfaith Education Keynote Address His Holiness the Dalai Lama Leo Lefebure Bhai Sahib Bhai Mohinder Singh
Dr. Howard is Medical Director of Wellness Associates of Chicago and is currently a board member of the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine. She is co-editor of the book Awakening the Spirit, Inspiring the Soul: 30 Stories of Interspiritual Discovery in the Community of Faiths.
Auditorium (3155), Spanish/English/Catalan
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.
Interfaith education enables us to learn about religious traditions other than their own, while also deepening our understanding of our own traditions, engaging both the commonalities that bring us together and the particularities that make us distinct. Moreover, interfaith education offers the capacity for profound personal and societal growth, which is essential to fostering and sustaining cultures of peace. His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama will address the subject during this highlight of the first day of the Symposium on Interfaith Education.
Sister Joyce Kemp, RC, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in Religion and Applied Spirituality from the Union Institute and is a member in good standing of the Religious of the Cenacle. She has written such articles as "An Empty Space: Sacred Drama as Spiritual Exercise," and "Where Improvisation and Spirituality Meet."
Tenzin Gyatzo, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet, the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people, has received many international awards, including the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.
Harold Kasimow, George Drake Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College, has written on Abraham J. Heschel and JewishBuddhist dialogue. He is the author of Divine Human Encounter and co-editor of No Religion Is an Island, John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue, and Beside Still Waters.
Leo Lefebure is an Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University in New York City. He is the author of four books, including The Buddha and the Christ and Revelation, the Religions, and Violence.
Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh is the Chairman of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is both a patron and member of several interfaith organizations and serves as an advisor to the Sikh Heritage Trust.
Updating Wisdom Stories for the 21st Century Rev. Heng Sure Brian Conroy Room 134, English/Spanish Interactive Workshop
Updating Wisdom Stories for the 21st Century is a workshop designed to renew and to carry forward the wisdom inherent in every religious tradition and spiritual discipline. We will teach skills required to identify, develop and update stories of wisdom, inter-religious harmony and healing rifts among peoples. Through a process of story-listening and storytelling in the unique interfaith environment of the Parliament, we will renew and thus preserve the wisdom of each tradition and, at the same time, create the potential for participants to foster their understanding of other traditions.
Affirmative Prayer as Common Ground: The Path of Personal Transformation and Spiritual Harmony Tom Zender Deepak Chopra Deborah Moldow Michael Beckwith Joan Borysenko Lynne Brown Mitchell Krucoff Mary Morrissey Rev. Juan Enrique Toro Rev. Duke Tufty Cassandra Vieten
Rev. Heng Sure, Ph.D., an American Buddhist monk, serves as Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and teaches on the staff at the Institute for World Religions. He is a member of the
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