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 Monday, July 12, 2004 ENGAGEMENT SESSION 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
has spoken on the work of the museum at national conferences including the American Association conference in Portland, Oregon in May 2003
This event will review trends in global consumption of goods and services, demonstrate that these trends are unsustainable, and suggest that they are spiritually debilitating as well. It will review some religious perspectives on consumption, and pose a question for discussion: should the world's religions be more engaged in critiquing modern attitudes toward consumption, and if so, how?
Hon Bao-De is the Director of the Museum of World Religions (MWR), which opened in Taipei in Nov. 2001 after more than one decade of preparatory work, and invited world religious leaders to this opening. Tatiana is the President and Executive Director of the Thanks-Giving Foundation in Texas. Before that, she was the Program Director for the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders in New York. She has worked for and with the United Nations in various capacities, including the UN's Transitional Authority in Cambodia, and as an interpreter in Europe, Asia and Africa. Ms. Androsov is fluent in English, French and Russian, and speaks 5 other languages as well.
Gary Gardner is Director of Research at the Worldwatch Institute, an independent nonprofit think tank in Washington D.C. His research and writing tocuses on a broad range of environmental issues, including consumption and on the nexus between religions and ecology
Sulak Sivarakso, of the Sonti Pracha Dhamma Institute, is a Nobel Prize nominee and prominent Buddhist social and environmental activist in Thailand. He has founded numerous organizations, and has been involved in Buddhist-Christian dialogue for decades. His books include Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society, and Loyalty Demands Dissent.
Muslim Women Between East & West Saleha Abedin Zeenath Kausar Aminah Assilmi Marcia Hermansen Room 116, Spanish/English/Catalan
The Experience of Interreligious Dialogue in Scouting: First Scout Interreligious Symposium Xavier Nuet Carles Cuenca
Room 120 Lecture
The Islamic perspective on gender equity in Islam is little understood and misrepresented by non-Muslims and, at times, by some Muslims as well. The predominant local cultural practices in different parts of the world and the actions of some Muslims tend to reinforce erroneous perceptions of the Islamic perspective. This panel discusses some aspects of this confusion.
Presentation of the experience of the first World Scouts Interreligious Symposium held in Valencia (Spain) in winter 2003, with the participation of 115 scout supervisors coming from 33 countries and with 12 different religious, backgrounds. The title of the event was "Learning to live together: tolerance, solidarity."
Chief Editor of Journal of Muslim Minority Affiars, Saleha Abedin is co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious & Spiritual Leaders. She is also on the International Advisory Board for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions.
Xavier Nuet is a Scouting leader, and interreligious practitioner in Spain
Dr. Zeenath Kausar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the International Islamic University Malaysia. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 1990, and she has been widely published in the field of women studies and political theories.
Carles Cuenca is President of the Foundation "Sant Jordi" for the Scout Movement in Valencia (Spain) and a member of the board of directors of the Scout Catholic Movement of Spain.
President of the International Union of Muslim Women, Aminah Assimi is a speaker, writer and award-winning broadcaster in Denver, Colorado, who lost her job when she began wearing Islamic dress
Media Empowerment - Understanding and Using the Power of Media Simon Cohen
Marcia Hermansen is a Professor of Theology at Loyola University in Chicago where she teaches courses in Islamic Studies and World Religions.
Room 121 Academy
Hungry for More: Raising Religious Voices on the Question of Global Consumption Gary Gardner Sulak Sivaraksa
This training program will provide young people with the tools to understand the power of the media and how to use it in a positive way. This interactive and informative session will draw upon the importance of young people in the interreligious movement, and how they are better placed than anyone to influence the power of the media. The training will provide delegates with practical guidelines about who to contact within the media, how to write a press release, how to manage relationships with the different media and much more. This
Room 117, Spanish/English/Catalan Lecture
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