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
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 INTRARELIGIOUS SESSION 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
purposes stated on page one, the "endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception."
F. Gard Jameson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is a Trustee of the Urantia Foundation. He's also a board member of both the North American Interfaith Network, and the Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada, as well as a member of the United Religions Initiative and Forge Guild.
Dr. Peter A. Huff holds the T.L. James Chair in Religious Studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. Author of Allen Tate and the Catholic Revival and co-editor of Knowledge and Belief in America, he has published widely on fundamentalism, pluralism, and interfaith dialogue.
Rashied Omar is a Trustee of CPWR; Imam, Cape Town, South Africa; coordinator, program in religion conflict, and peace building, University of Notre Dame, US,
Paula Thompson is the Executive Director of the Jesusonian Foundation in Boulder, Colorado. She also currently serves on the executive boards of two Urantia oriented non-profits, and has Successfully taught these amazing concepts to others for 27 years. She is also a member of the Urantia Book Fellowship.
R. Douglas Geivett, Professor of Philosophy at Biola University, has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy, and an M.A. in Biblical Studies He has taught at numerous Universities, and has written and contributed to several books, including In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History.
Author and winner of Mexico's National Prize in Literature for his novel Samahua, Leonardo Da Jandra has a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Mathematics.
Donald Wagner is Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at North Park University in Chicago. He is the author of five books, recently Dying in the Land of Promise (2003), and of Anxious for Armageddon (1995).
The Movement of the Catholic) Focolari and Eastern Religions Angel Bartol Francesc Brunés Aurelio Cerviño
Justice, War and Peace in Islam Abdul Malik Mujahid Syed Shahabuddin Tariq Ramadan Rached Ghannoushi
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Seminar
Multiuse (1800), Spanish/English/Catalan
Experiences of the Focolari movement concerning its contact with Buddhism in 1979 and with Hinduism in 2001.
Angel Bartol is former director of the magazine Ciudad Nuevo and co-chair of the Focolar Movement in Spain.
What is the Islamic position on war and peace? This panel addresses this critical question, considering issues of justice, negotiation and working for human harmony,
Francesc Brunés is a high school teacher, he is in charge of the interreligious dialogue of the Focolors of Barcelona.
An award-winning author and producer, Abdul Malik Mujahid is a Trustee of CPWR. He is an Imam in the Chicago area, and has served as the President of several Muslim organizations and alliances.
Aurelio Cerviño holds a Bachelor Degree on Moral Theology and is the director of a magazine called Ciutat Nova.
An Indian Ambassador to Algeria and Mauritanio, Syed served as General Secretary of the Janata Party, and was a member of the Parliament for three terms. Syed was the founding Editor of the Journal Muslim Indio, and currently heads All India Muslim Majlise-Mushawarat.
Fundamentalism: The Final Frontier for Interreligious Dialogue? Peter Huff Rashied Omar R. Geivett Donald Wagner
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
Auditorium (3155), Spanish/English/Catalan Academic Paper
A distinguished Islamic thinker and scholar, and the leader of the En-Nahda Movement of Tunisia. Sheikh Ghannoushi has written extensively on the social aspect of Islam in the contemporary world.
Interreligious Youth Concert María Lucía Caram Padilla
This panel brings together a group of Muslim and Christian speakers to address the cross-cultural phenomenon of fundamentalism as it relates to contemporary interreligious encounter. It will address the themes of peacemaking and listening across religious boundaries from a variety of paradigms, and will propose strategies for constructive dialogue with fundamentalist movements in world religions. Emphasizing the strategic role of interior dialogue with the "other", we seek to promote dialogue between fundamentalists and non-fundamentalists on the level of practical experience.
Cabaret (10:00 AM–11:00 AM), Catalan Artistic Performance
Young people of two different musical groups will use the
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