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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shown, and attendees will receive a free resource package, including Eknath Easwaran's classic book Nonviolent Soldier of Islam.
David Capraro is President of In the Light, and a sponsor of the Gandhi-Khan Peace Project. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Sarvodaya USA, and is the Interfaith Coordinator for Aetherius Society.
Prassana Vengadam is the past Vice-President and current member of the Theosophical Society, Detroit, Michigan. She currently teaches university courses in the area of Communications. She is the Project Manager of the Gandhi-Khan Peace Project Committee and active in interfaith activities in Metro Detroit.
Imam Abdullah El Amin is Executive Director of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, and is also the Executive Director of the Muslim Center-Detroit and the metropolitan Detroit Editor of The Muslim Observer. He is very active in Detroit interfaith activities and a member of the Gandhi-Khan Peace Project Committee.
Rev. Cheryl Myhand, Chair of the Board of Directors of Hunger Action Coalition is on the Board of Directors of Interfaith PartnersDetroit. She also teaches a course on Peace to Detroit High School Students and is extremely active in Detroit interfaith
activities.
Ven. Chuen Phangcham, Ph.D., is President of the Midwest Buddhist Meditation Center-Warren, Michigan, and lectures at universities on Buddhism and Eastern Studies. He is involved in programs aimed at the resolution of moral, ethical, and criminal problems, and gives regular Dhamma talks and meditation instructions in area prisons. He is a past member of the Board of Trustees of CPWR.
Imam Achhmat Salie is the Director of the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit, where he is involved in regular outreach programs. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in business administration, and is very active in interfaith activities.
Academic Teaching of the Holy Book: Interpretation in Monotheistic Religions Enric Cortès Minguella
Oriol Tuni
Mercè Viladrich
G. Del Olmo Lete
R. Ruben
Room 115, Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
Panel discussion on the importance of the knowledge of the different religious monotheistic traditions and the teaching of their own Holy Books. After knowing the other, respect and understanding arrive. The first part will be an exposition by the different speakers, and the second part will bring a conversation of all those speakers. Religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Enric Cortès Minguella is a Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Theology of Catalonia.
Program Descriptions Sunday, July 11, 2004
INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Dr. Oriol Tuñí, Dean of the Catalonia Faculty of Theology.
Mercè Viladrich is a Professor of the University of Barcelona, with a focus on Islamic studies.
G. Del Olmo Lete isDirector of the Near Eastern Institute at the University of Barcelona.
R. Ruben is a Scholar of the Torah who lives in Barcelona.
Human Moral Development in Islam, Christianity and Buddhism Deborah Peterson
Ayse Sikika Oktay
Nabeel Mohammad Ashraf Medhi Aminrezahvi Nicholay Omelchenko Julian Karpowicz Glen Hughes
Keith Nelson
Zahid Bukhari
Lama Jinpa Gyamtso
Room 116, Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
Sharing Christian, Buddhist, and Muslim precepts of moral character and its proper development is to open the door to dialogue with each other on this topic. Taking the work of these groups as a starting point, we will move to discussion of the question of convergence and divergence of the principles underlying each tradition, ultimately crafting a working definition of a universal humanism appropriate for our time. Those interested in East-West dialogue will come away from this session with an increased appreciation of the teaching of these traditions on the subject of human moral character and its proper development. Ideally, they will also find themselves on an extended search for a fuller understanding of the many questions it raises, and actively involved in a larger, ongoing, international dialogue on universal humanism and its potential to foster to understanding between adherents of the various world religions and hence also contribute to world peace.
Deborah Peterson is a Philosophy and Comparative Religion instructor at Central Lakes College and Marquette University. She is a writer and speaker on issues of peace and justice, and is also Editor of Concerned Philosophers for Peace publications.
Dr. Ayse Sikika Oktay is a Muslim woman who teaches in the Turkish university system. She has written on Islamic ethics in the past, and has a book in publication about the Ethics of the Ottoman Empire.
Mr. Nabeel Mohammad Ashraf received his MA from Lahore Pakistan, and has spent much of his life studying Christianity and writing on the question of Islamic-Christian dialogue.
Dr. Medhi Aminrezahvi, from Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Maryland.
Dr. Omelchenko is currently Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and
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