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
LUNCH BREAK 1:00 PM 3:00 PM
Discussion session to follow during the Open Space period with director Mr. Sandi Simcha DuBowski, who has spent three years touring the film world-wide leading 700 dialogues with Christians, Muslims, Catholics, Buddhists, Jews, Mormons and Sikhs. Now seen by 3 million people worldwide, the film has sparked enormous change for individuals, religious leaders, families and communities.
Sandi DuBowski is a filmmaker/writer based in New York. His critically-acclaimed film, Trembling Before G-d, had a world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and has received twelve awards, including The Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival, The Mayor's Prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the GLAAD Media Award. It is being broadcast on BBC, The Sundance Channel, HBO Latin America, ARTE, Israel's Keshet/Chanel Two and is now out on DVD. DuBowski is currently producing a documentary about Islam and homosexuality that is being shot in several
countries.
Peace By Peace: Women on the Frontlines Jennifer Vanden Bosch
Patricia Smith Melton
Ann Smith
Room 116 (1:15 PM 2:45 PM), English Film Screening followed by Interactive Discussion
Peace By Peace: Women on the Frontlines documents women around the world standing together, working for peace, advocating restorative justice, healing their communities and educating future generations that war is not the answer. This film celebrates these women in a breakthrough documentary of their unheralded work focusing on two women in each of the following countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, BosniaHerzegovina, Burundi and USA. (56 min.) A discussion session with the producers immediately follows.
Jennifer Vanden Bosch is associate producer of Peace X Peace: Women on the Frontlines. She currently manages the distribution of the film to eduational markets in the USA as well as organizes screenings with various non-profit groups and NGO's around the world.
Patricia Smith Melton, executive director and co-producer, has spent the last decade dedicated to the creation of nonprofit organizations that foster international education and cultural exchange, and founded PEACE X PEACE in 2002.
Ann Smith is Global Network Outreach Director for PEACE X PEACE, a newly formed international women's peace organization which provides state of the art internet technology to connect circles around the world for dialogue and deep listening.
Theologies of Liberation and Interreligious Dialogue
Juan José Tamayo
Asgáre Waezi
Diego Irarrazabal
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Annette Meutrath Tariq Ramadan
Auditorium (3155) (1:15 PM 2:45 PM), English/Spanish/ Catalan
Panel Discussion
We are in a new paradigm of religious pluralism. Often religions have been related to wars and to alienation. It can be different if there is no more perversion in the religious fact. There are in religions seeds of peace and freedom that can contribute to personal and structural liberation. Today there is an special challenge: to build theologies of liberation that can be interreligious. Can we find the grounds to an interreligious and intercultural critical theology of liberation able to reply to inequalities and fondamentalisms?
Juan José Tamayo is a Professor of Theology ans Religious Studies of the Department "Ignacio Ellacuria" of the University Carlos III of Madrid. He has written several concerning theology of liberation and he has close relationships with grassroots Christian groups in Latin America.
Asgáre Waezi is President of the Interreligious Relationships Department of the Culture and Islamic Relationships Organization (Sazmáne Farhángue wa Ertebatáte Islami) of Iran.
Diego Irarrazabal is President of Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. For 23 years he has headed a parish and the Aymara Institute in Chucuito - between Puno and Ilave. He is related to the indigenous theology.
Annette Meutrath is a Ph.D. in Indian Studies specialized in Dalit theology of liberation.
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.
ENGAGEMENT 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The Meaning of "Awakening" in Modern Spiritual and Scientific Contexts
Audrey Kitagawa
James Hurtak
Ashok Gangadean
Room 111, Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
Our world has become increasingly polarized by clashes which are characterized as confrontations between diverse and competing religious, social, cultural, and scientific factions.. Can consciousness, whether individual or collective, be transformed toward higher states of creativity in service to