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 Saturday, July 10, 2004 ENGAGEMENT SESSION 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Dr. Chris Hewer is Advisor on Inter-Faith Relations to the Bishop of Birmingham
Professor Gurharpal Singh is the Nodir Dinshaw Professor of InterReligious Relations at the University of Birmingham.
them to the cultures from which they were collected. Current projects relate to the restoring the sacred texts of Yezidi communities in Southern Turkey and Kansas; arranging a conference on the unexcavated and endangered city of Harran in SE Turkey: archiving the earliest records of several New Religious Movements; restoring the oral traditions of the Todas, an indigenous tribe in South India; recording and preserving the temple rites of the Araiyars, a tradition of ritual performance maintained in only three Sri Vaisnava temples in South India; a grassroots, tape-recording project to preserve oral traditions in marginalized and endangered cultures around the world.
Humankind and Nature: the Islamic Perspective on the Ecological Problem Hawwa Morales Soto Inara Asensio Jalil Barcena Abdel Sabate Areste Nur Muhammad Baldovi
Don Frew is the founder and Director of the Lost and Endangered Religions Project (LERP). He has been active in interfaith work for 18 years, and serves on the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative and the Board of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio.
Room 130, English/Spanish/Arabic/Catalan Other
Panel discussion on the ecological crisis that faces the human community, and the Muslim perspective on this topic. In particular, panelists will explore the relation of human beings with nature and the place of human beings in the creation.
Layne Little MA, Ph.D. (ABD) is the Regional Director for South Asia for LERP. He is an Adjunct Professor at St. Lawrence University and teaches courses on South Asian Religion, Myth & Folklore.
Hawwa Soto is a Muslim from Barcelona who works with the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia, and was an active organizer for the 2004 Parliament of the World's Religions.
Archana Venkatesan MA Ph.D. (ABD) is the Jeffrey Campbell Fellow at St. Lawrence University where she teaches courses on South Asian Religion, Dance, and Ritual Performance in the Department of Religious Studies. She is the Project Director of LERP's Araiyar Seval Conservation Project.
Inara Asensio is a member of the group of Muslim Converts of the UNESCO Association for the Interreligious Dialogue in Barcelona.
Devesh Soneji MA, Ph.D. (ABD) is the Director of the Mongolo Initiative and Project Director of LERP'S Devadasi Preservation Project. He is also an Assistant Professor of South Indian Religions at McGill University, Canada.
Jalil Barcena is an expert in Sutism, the director of the Institute of Suti Studies of Barcelona and a professor at the Religious Traditions Centre and the University of Girona.
Abdel Sabate Areste is founder of the Sufi Center of Barcelona; he has been a member of the group "Muslim converts of the UNESCO Center of Catalonia since 2001.
A Taoist living in San Francisco, Philip Sebastian is also a
rofessional display artist who fabricates sets and props for trade shows and theatrical theme events. Artist, sculptor, puppeteer, Philip's personal philosophy is "Do not look at it as it is, but as it may be."
Nur Muhammad Baldovi is a Muslim from Barcelona active in the local interreligious movement.
Biblical Translation, Interculturality and Human Dignity Dr. Samuel Escobar Aguirre José Luís Andavert Escriche Daniel Rodriguez Ramos
The Lost & Endangered Religions Project: Preserving the World's Diverse Religious Heritage Elder Donald Frew Layne Little Archana Venkatesan Devesh Soneji Philip Sebastian
Room 132, Spanish Panel Discussion
Panel discussion that will explore how the diffusion of the Bible has helped various cultures to understand each other better.
Room 131, English Panel Discussion
Samuel Escobar Aguirre has graduated in education from the University Saint Marcos of Lima, Peru; he has a Ph.D. from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and an honorary Ph. D. in Theology from the MacMaster University of Hamilton (Canada); he is the president of the Biblical United Societies.
The Lost & Endangered Religions Project (LERP) is a "Gift of Service" created in the 1999 Parliament Assembly. It works to identify religious material (e.g. songs, stories, texts that have been lost in marginalized religious communities, but preserved in academic archives, to copy those materials, and to return
José Luís Andavert Escriche has a master in theology and is a specialist of the New Testament; is the general director of the Biblical Society of Spain and the president of the Comittee for Western Europe of the United Biblical Societies; he is also a
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