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

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Program Descriptions Friday, July 9, 2004 INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
collaboration of the Spanish Federation of Jewish Communities, the Union of Islamic Communities and the Ecumenical Center P. Congar in a context of tolerance and respect towards the cultural and religious identities. This chair gathers professors from 13 different universities and from the three religions, and is a pioneer experience in the Spanish university landscape.
Tenrikyo teaches the Joyous Life - the world filled with joy. peace and harmony - as a desire of God. This lecture will discuss the construction of world peace from Tenrikyo's perspective, focussing on the following aspects: the relationships between God and human beings as "Parent and children", the relationship among human beings as “brothers and sisters", and this world, the place of constuction, as "the body of God".
Juan Bosch Navarro is a consecrated person of the Dominican Order (Christian), specialized in Ecumenical Theology and new religious movements. Founder of the "Anti-Apartheid Soweto Group of Valencia Spain, and director of the "Three Religion" course at Valencia University. Professor of Theology at the University of Valencia.
Hiroshi Uetani is Professor Emeritus of the Tenri University with the specialization in Politics and Economy in Latin America.
The Multicultural and Interreligious Life in Melilla Luis López Peña Manuel Jiménez Bárcenas Room 130, Lecture
Restorative Justice and Exploratory Faith: A Model for Intercultural Peace and Cooperation Nathan Tierney Daniel Wessner Daniel Smith-Christopher
Lecture presenting a recent study about the way religious communities are living together in the city of Melilla in which the peculiar vision of every community is analyzed.
Room 125, English/Spanish Panel Discussion
Luis López Peña is in charge of the Cultural Department of the City of Melilla
Father Manuel Jiménez Bárcenas is a priest and has a Bachelor's Degree in economics. He has written a study "Multicultural Living Together in Melilla."
Peace, listening and commitment to restorative justice are the central themes of this panel presentation. Participants will be presented with a model of intercultural exchange which works within and through religious and cultural traditions rather than **manage them towards objectively rational ends. Developing the listening, healing and exploratory aspects of justice and peace through religious dialogue, the panel will address their role in development education, reconciliation processes, and spiritual peacemaking.
Professor Tierney is the author of Imagination and Ethical Ideals, and a number of articles dealing with ethics and world religions. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum and is also a partner in the ethics consulting service, Philosophy and the Real World.
Interfaith Encounters: Marriages, Child Rearing, Funerals, and Other Practical Concerns Ronald Nakasone Janet A. Bregar Chao-Ti Wu Pinit Ratanukul Stephen Myers Room 131, English Panel Discussion
Daniel Wessner is Associate Professor of International & Political Studies at Eastern Mennonite University. He practices law in the field of international human rights regime-building, and is also an ordained clergy member of the Mennonite Church
Dr. Daniel L. Smith-Christopher is Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, where he also serves as the Director of the Peace Studies program. He has written several books, including Subverting Hatred.
This panel discussion will review and reflect on the concerns faced by interfaith families. Special attention will be paid to the institutional and doctrinal needs of these families that result from cultural diffusion, religious pluralism, interfaith marriage and child rearing, interfaith funerals, and general encounters in daily life. Some of the perennial questions are: What kind of funerals do we conduct (or design) when the parent is of one faith and the child or spouse is of another? Can the cleric of one tradition adequately counsel interfaith families? These encounters all offer insights into the methods, processes, promises, and limitations of interfaith dialogue. The panelists will focus on the practical points of contention and convergence in American, Thai, and Taiwanese Buddhist-Christian experiences.
Towards the Construction of the World Peace: Tenrikyo's Proposal Hiroshi Uetani
Room 129, Spanish/English Lecture
Ronald Nakasone, Ph.D. is a Buddhist cleric at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley California. He has been
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