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
INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION 11:30 AM 1:00 PM
teaching at Loyola Marymount University where she is also the Director of International Programs.
James E. Miller is a specialist in Daoism, and the author of Daoism: A Short Introduction. He is also co-editor of Daoism and Ecology, and editor of www.dooiststudies.org. His current research projects include a study of a medieval Daoist religious movement, and an ecological theory of religion.
Formerly President of the Religious Education Association of the US and Canada, Stephen Bede Scharper is author of Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment. His main research and teaching is in the area of religion and culture and religious ethics and ecology.
Dr. Ulmer has a PhD in Judaic Studies, and has extensive training in Egyptology. She has taught at numerous institutions and has published nine books in rabbinics, as well as fifty articles in various publications,
Dr. Shiva is the Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in India. Her expertise on issues of food security includes intellectual property rights and biodiversity. She has been involved in community action on many environmental issues, including water.
LUNCH BREAK 1:00 PM 3:00 PM
A Circle of Hearts
Taneen: Sufi Music Ensemble
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TBA, All
Artistic Performance
Taneen: Sufi Music Ensemble offers a peaceful, heart-opening offering of prayerful, original, contemporary American-Persian fusion Sufi music, with English translations of Persian Sufi poetry as lyrics, interwoven with Arabic chant of some of the 99 Most Beautiful Names of the Divine. This presentation may also include a few readings (in English or Persian) of the poetry of Sufi Masters, Rumi, Hafez, Khayam and Shah Maghsoud.
Taneen's music is a blend of Persain and Western received through meditation and deply rooted in Sufism. Their lyrics are drawn from ecstatic Sufi poetry, translated by Seyedeh Dr. Nahid Angha. Ensemble members include: Salima Ginny Matchette, Soraya Chase Clow, Salim Matchette, Jeff McCullough, Taher Anthony Roybal and Sheikh Salman Baruti.
Faith on Film: Hiding and Seeking - Faith and Tolerance
Macky Alston
Barbara Abrash
Room 111
Film Festival
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Faith on Film Series: Hiding and Seeking-Faith and Tolerance (2004) is a daring exploration of the complex dynamics of survival and resistance, hatred, forgiveness and healing. A father tries to alert his Orthodox Jewish sons to the dangers posed by religious leaders who preach intolerance. To broaden their views, he takes them to Poland to meet the Catholic farmers who risked their lives hiding their grandfather for more than two years during the Holocaust. (85 min.) A discussion session with Macky Alston and a religious leader of the faith tradition in the film follows during the Open Space period.
Macky Alston is the Director of Auburn Media, a division of the Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Theological Seminary committed to cultivating, supporting and promoting engaging, responsible, balanced media about religion, spirituality and ethics.
Barbara Abrash is associate director of the Center for Media, Culture and History and the center for Religion and Media at New York University where she also teaches. She is an independent documentary producer, film curator and co-editor of Personal Essay Filmmaking of the 1980's and 9-11 and After: A Virtual Casebook
as well as numerous articles.
Splendors of the Spirit: Swedenborg's Quest for Insight
Deborah Forman
Room 116, English Film Festival
Splendors of the Spirit: Swedenborg's Quest for Insight (2001) documents the quest, life and legacy of the 18th Century Swedish scientist, theologian, visionary and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg. It highlights his exploration of spiritual worlds, near death experience, heaven, wisdom of the angels, meaning and purpose in life. His thinking influenced Goethe, Blake, Balzac, Baudelaire, Brownings, Yeats, Dostoevsky, Emerson and D.T. Suzuki. (60 min.) A discussion and look at the role of Swedenborgian Charles Bonney in the first World Parliament of Religions in 1893 immediately follows.
Deborah Belle Forman co-wrote and was executive in charge of production for this award-winning film which premiered at the National Academy of Sciences. Ms. Forman studied world religions at Harvard Divinity School, holds an MBA from New York University, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Sikhs in America Vinanti Sarkar
Harbans Lal
Room 117
Film Festival
MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Sikhs in America (2003) tells how Amana Gesine, never having had a Sikh friend, discovers Sikhs and Sikhism after she learns how fellow Americans were racially profiled, verbally abused and physically assaulted in the wake of September 11th. The film demystifiess the enigma of