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 Friday, July 9, 2004
INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Interreligious Dialogue and Non-negotiable Dogmas Ignasi Boada Lama Denys Teoundroup Rev. Dr. Raimon Panikkar Tariq Ramadan Rabbi Emeritus Sidney Schwarz Auditorium (3155), Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
This panel will discuss the work, accomplishments and contemporary challenges of interfaith institutions located in different parts of the world: The Museum of World Religions (Taiwan), The Global Ethic Foundation (Germany), The Elijah Interfaith Academy (Israel) and the Lassalle Institute (Switzerland). The respective founders of these institutions will address their specific visions and experiences and engage each other and the public in a discussion of the most pressing challenges facing interfaith work today. The Panel presents a rich offering of very concrete and distinctive approaches to interfaith work that will serve as inspiration to a varied audience.
An interreligious panel of experts will explore the possible limits of interreligious dialogue. Panelists will examine difficult questions, including: Is real dialogue possible if the actors consider some aspects of their traditions as non-negotiable? Are there topics and conceptions that we are not ready to reexamine?
Maria Habito is International Program Director, The Museum of World Religions. She is also International Program Director of Global Family for Love and Peace, a US-based NGO.
Ignasi Boada is a Dr. in philosophy and professor of history of religions at the Institute of Religious Sciences of Barcelona, Vic and Tarragona
Dharma Master Hsin Tao founded the acclaimed Museum of World Religions that opened in Taiwan in November 2001 and Global Family for Love and Peace that was established in 2002. Ata young age, Master Hsin Too made a vow to spend his life following the spiritual example of Bodhisattva Kuanyin, and at the age of 25 he was tonsured as a monk. After many years in ascetic and solitary living, Master Hsin Tao reentered society and established the Ling-Joiu Mountain Wu Sheng Monastery, as well as several foundations.
Lama Denys Teoundroup founded the Buddhist European University and was the co-founder of the Initiative of the United Traditions and of the Initiative Pax Cultura; he is the President of the Buddhist Institute "Karma Ling" in France, the Honorary President of the European Buddhist Union, and a member of the Comittee of the Interreligious Council of the UNESCO
Raimon Panikkar has been professor at the universities of Madrid, Rome, Harvard and California, where he has taught Indian culture and history and philosophy of religions. He has published more than 40 books, including The Trinity and the World's Religions and has created the Vivarium Foundation in Catalonia, which is dedicated to promoting the interreligious dialogue. He is the cochair of the Parliament of World's Religions in Barcelona,
Dr. Hans Küng is an internationally known Christian theologian and president of the Global Ethic Foundation of Tübingen University. He has published over fifty titles, including Does God Exista, Christianity and World Religion, Paths to Dialogue with Islam, Hindusm and Buddhism, Christians and Jews, Global Responsibility, In Search of a New World Ethic, and edited, Yes to a Global Ethic. Dr. Kung lives and teaches in Tübingen, Germany
Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss Muslim intellectual of Egyptian heritage. Born in Switzerland, he is one of the most important figures of the European Islam and teaches Islamic sciences at the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg, He serves as an expert in various committees linked to the European Parliament in Brussels.
Pia Gyger, a Zen teacher and psychotherapist, is the cofounder and leader of the Lassalle Institute for responsible leadership in Bad Schoenbrunn, Switzerland. She is cofounder of the Lassalle Peace movement, and is cofounder and Director of the BuddhistChristian seminar at Lassalle House,
Rabbi Emeritus Sidney Schwarz, Ph.D., founder and president of PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, currently serves as Rabbi Emeritus of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Rockville, Maryland. Additionally, Dr. Schwarz is the co-author of numerous books and over 100 of his articles have been published.
Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein is Director of the The Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions, and lecturer and Director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morosha College, both in Jerusalem, since 1997. Ordained a Rabbi in 1977, Dr. Goshen-Gottstein has published several books and many articles.
Reaching Out to the Religious Other: Four Interfaith Institutions that Make a Difference Maria Habito Hsin Tao Hans Küng Pia Gyger Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Fool's Mass Matthew Mitler Jason Anthony Yvonne Brecht Casey Groves Martha Hoffman Wendy Mapes John Norman Michael Richardson/Wilson Rebecca Sokoll Bob Strock Rachel Whitman
Multiuse (1800), Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
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