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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Symposia
Interfaith Peacebuilding Skills
In the second session we look into our own traditions and learn from others how our teachings, rituals and practices can lead either to inclusion and peace or to exclusion, prejudice, and violence.
July 8th, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm Montjuic Room, AC Barcelona
This unique one-day training is for anyone who wishes to develop peace leadership skills for daily practice and to enhance interfaith work among diverse religions, spiritual paths and indigenous traditions.
In the final session we focus on principles for leading interfaith action and non-violent action from an interfaith perspective and close with peace songs and dancing. Workshop Presenters:
Two organizations-Pathways to Peace and the United Religions Initiative-are collaborating to bring you this interactive skill-building workshop. In the first session we focus on peacebuilding from within by discovering how we define and practice peace, the lenses through which we see the world, and our own readiness to engage in peacebuilding. Core principles and practices of peace will be presented, and we will develop a "safe space" for effective interfaith work.
Masankho Banda internationally renowned peccebuilder; performing artist and African healer; received the "Unsung Hero" award from His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his international peacebuilding work; Vice President of Pathways to Peace. Barbara Hartford-Peacebuilding Initiatives Director of the United Religions Initiative; collaborated on the first Interfaith Peacebuilding Guide for grassroots groups around the world André Porto-Latin American Regional Coordinator for the United Religions Initiative; Program Director for Viva Rio, one of the largest social service organizations in the world, serving people of the favelas (slums) in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Towards an Interreligious and Intercultural Theology of Liberation
Hyondok Choe. Koreon Presbyterian Theologian. Intercultural Theology: An Asian Perspective
We are in the presence of-or, rather, the protagonists of a paradigm shift in all the fields of action and knowledge. One of the characteristics of this change is the passage from a single religion and culture to a religious and cultural pluralism. This makes necessary a radical change of mentality, of ways of life, and of attitudes which include tolerance and respect for differences, interculturality, and interreligious dialogue.
July 11 PM: Theology from an inter-religious perspective 3:00-4:30 PM Sala Sants Paul Knitter. Theologian. Emeritus Professor of Theology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio Theologies of liberation and religious pluralism. Juan José Tamayo. Director of the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Theology and Religious Sciences. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: Inter-religious Feminist Theology.
July 12 11:30 AM–1:00 PM Sala Sants Theology from a liberating perspective José María Vigil. Member of the Comisión Teológica Latinoamericana de lo Asociación Ecuménica de Teólogos y Teólogas del Tercer Mundo Panamá World liberation and religions. Harald Suermann. Theologian. Theology of liberation: A Palestinian perspective
11:30 AM–1:00 PM Sala Eixample Gender, Ecology, and Religions Clarisa Nieva. Baha'i Faith. Margarita Pintos. Theologian Catholicism. Yafar González, Teólogo. Islam Miriam Subirana. President of the Brahma Kumaris Association
The main challenge that faces religions today is the creation of a theology of liberation according to interreligious, intercultural, and interethnic perspectives on a planetary level. This must, moreover, contribute to constructing a world where we all fit, without exclusions based on gender, ethnicity, religion, class, or culture. Theorectical clarification in this field is the necessary condition to activate a liberation-based praxis. This is precisely the aim of this seminar, which counts on the participation of contributors-men and women who work in theology-from the different continents and from numerous religious and cultural traditions. It is a theology of liberation capable of responding to the inequalities of our time. July 11 AM: Theology from an intercultural perspective 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM, Sala Sagrada Familia Raúl Fornet-Betancourt. Professor of Philosophy. Universidad de Aachen. Departamento de América Latina-Missio: From interculturalism to interculturality Raimon Panikkor. Copresidente del IV Parliament of religions del Mundo: Bases for a theology from intercultural perspective. 11:30 AM-13:00 AM Sala Sagrada Familia Diego Irarrazabal. Chilean theologian and president of the Ecumenical Association of Theologians of the Developing World. Latin American Theology: an indigenous perspective
11:30 AM–1:00 PM Sala Grácia Religions and Human Rights Estrella Israel Garzón, Vicedeon, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación Universidad de Valencio. Judaism. Antonio Minguez. Ex president, Federación de Comunidades Buddhistas Representatives of Hinduism. Tarik Ramadán. Intellectual. Islam Ana Balani. Hinduism
3:00 PM-4:30 PM, Location TBA Theology from a liberating perspective Annette Meutrath. Professor of Indology: Dalit Theology of Liberation. Elisabeth Steffens. Theologian. Diplomate in Latin American Studies (theme: TBA).
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