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
ENGAGEMENT SESSION 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Dance of the Four Cultures
Cabaret, English/Spanish/Catalan Artistic Performance
book, Sexism and God-Talk, is a classic in the field of feminist theology. With wide-ranging scholarship and a penchant for finding hidden connections among seemingly disparate fields, Ruether hos written and edited close to twenty books and hundreds of articles and reviews. She is at home in such diverse fields as the patristics, the historical and theological roots of anti-Semitism, the Israeli Palestinian conflict, the history of women in American religion, liberation theology, the mythology of the Ancient Near East, and ecology
The song of the Sun: music and Sufi Menlevi dance. Jalil Barcena
Sulak Sivaraksa, of the Santi Pracha Dhamma Institute, is a Nobel Prize nominee and prominent Buddhist social and environmental activist in Thailand. He has founded numerous organizations, and has been involved in Buddhist-Christian dialogue for decades. His books include Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society, and Loyalty Demands Dissent.
Theater, Arabic/Turkish Artistic Performance
Artistic performance by J. Barcena and his group called "usha" ("The Lovers of Allah") that will interpret the Sufi Menlevi music and dance called "The song of the sun" inspired by the Persian Sufi poet Hazra Maulana Rumi.
Concert and Dance of Shinto Traditional Music Noriaki Nagao
Theater (4:30 PM - 5:00 PM), English/Spanish/Catalan Artistic Performance
Jalil Barcena is an expert in Sufism, the director of the Institute of Sufi Studies of Barcelona and a professor at the Religious Traditions Centre and the University of Girona.
Music concert with the selected best traditional music of the emperor's Court. Gegaku music is a melting pot between traditional Japanese music and dance and different kinds of dance and music from Asia. The Gegaku Society of the Tenri University from Nara, Japan are formed by 19 musicians, it has restored the traditional music for 24 years.
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