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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of Life and Death. In this presentation he will share how the sense of life can influence the dialogical attitude of everyone in fundamental ways.
Sogyal Rimpoche is one of the most distinguished lamas and spiritual teachers, and is considered the reincarnation of Lerab Lingpa Tertön Sogyal, the spiritual teacher of the 13th Dalai Lama. He is also the director and founder of Rigpa, an international network of Buddhist centres and groups.
Representative Songs from Jewish & Sephardic World
Samuel Salama
Theater (10:30 AM 11:30 AM), Spanish Artistic Performance
A concert of songs about the Jewish and Sephardic world. The Choir of the Israelite Community of Barcelona has acquired an important reknown for the quality of its art.
Samuel Salama is Director of the Sefardi School of Barcelona.
Sephardic Music
Samuel Salama
Hellen Gould Ventura
Theater (10:30 AM 11:30 AM), English/Spanish/Catalan Artistic Performance
The Hellen Gould Quintet offers a concert of Sephardic music and songs that have remained until today accompanying the lives, traditions, and ceremonies of the Spanish Jewish, and have contributed to the conservation of the Ladino language.
Samuel Salama is Director of the Sefardi School of Barcelona.
Hellen Gould Ventura is Director of the quintet that bares her name. She is a writer, an actress and artistic director with 23 years of experience in the artistic field.
INTERRELIGIOUS 11:30 AM 1:00 PM
Does the Media Promote Interreligious Dialogue?
Lluís Bernabe Guinot
Jean-Paul Guetny
Juan Bedoya
Gustav Niebuhr
Jean-François Mayer
Francesc Rovira
Room 111, Spanish/English/Catalan
Panel Discussion
Program Descriptions Friday, July 9, 2004
INTRARELIGIOUS SESSION 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
How the press deals with religions. Are there differences in the way to address religion depending on the media (press, TV, radio)? Are they responsible for the public opinion of the citizens about religions? Can they ease the dialogue between the different religions?
Lluís Bernabe Guinot is Director of the interreligious radio program ""Samarkanda"" at "Ona Catalana" channel (Barcelona).
Jean-Paul Guetny is Director of ""Le Monde des Religions"", one of the main magazines about religions in France.
Juan Bedoya is a journalist specialized in religions at the Spanish newspaper ""El Pais"".
Gustav Niebuhr is a former journalist at the "New York Times" and currently professor of journalism at Princeton University.
Jean-François Mayer is a Professor of religious sciences at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland); one of the most important experts of new religions and religious violence; he is a journalist expert of religions for the Swiss journal "La Liberté" and has created the web page "Religioscope".
Francesc Rovira is Director of the only Catalan magazine of interreligious dialogue ("Dialogal"); he is a member of the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia and is in charge of the diffusion of the Parliament of World's Religions.
"World Commission on Global Consciousness
and Spirituality" Roundtable
Ashok Gangadean
Ewert Cousins
Tu Weiming Wayne Teasdale Karan Singh Ervin Laszlo
James Parks Morton Mary Evelyn Tucker Jane Goodall Raimón Panikkar Robert Thurman Jonathan Granoff Helga Breuninger Audrey Kitagawa
Room 113, Spanish/English/Catalan Interactive Workshop
This Roundtable of attending Commissioners aims at a deep dialogue on the vital importance of cultivating global consciousness and spirituality as transformative powers for planetary cultures in the 21st century. Each Commissioner will present his/her vision and perspective on this priority of global consciousness for cultural sustainability and human flourishing in sharing our planet as one human family. These short presentations will be followed by open dialogue, and in a later follow up ""open space"" session that afternoon this deep dialogue will continue in greater depth - focusing on egocentric
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