Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Symposia
Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity
This symposium is presented with the generous support of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha.
Throughout the span of human history, civilisations, societies and communities have grounded their religious beliefs and practices with sacred spaces. From shrines and sanctuaries to holy cities and sacred mountains, these sites reflect a diverse spiritual landscape of vast significance both to the traditions that revere them and to a world concerned with preserving its precious heritage. As globalisation sweeps across the planet and contact among diverse peoples grows, so do opportunities to target the sacred sites of religious and spiritual traditions for misguided sectarian and political purposes. In response to the increasing necessity to protect these often-fragile links between the physical and the spiritual, there is a growing international interest in establishing a preservation protocol for sacred sites of religious and spiritual traditions. This symposium will bring together representatives of many diverse traditions, as well as international and non-governmental organisations. Inspiring interdisciplinary perspectives on the mutual respect for and care of sacred sites will be voiced. Practical ways for interested parties to join with existing initiatives - and ways to expand those efforts - will be explored. The use of websites and cutting-edge social networking vehicles to link partners together - across town and across the globe - will also be presented.
See back of book for full descriptions.
Schedule:
Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity: The Time is Now 2:30-4:00pm Room 106
4 Dec
Protecting Religious Freedom & Sacred Sites: Examples from Indigenous Communities (Session 1] 4 Dec 4:30-6:00pm
Room 208
Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity Working Session 1 4 Dec 4:30-6:00pm Room 103
Protecting Religious Freedom & Sacred Sites: Examples from Indigenous Communities (Session 2)
5 Dec 2:30-4:00pm
Room 208
Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity: Stories from the Frontlines 5 Dec 2:30-4:00pm Room 106
The Lost & Endangered Religions Project: Preserving the World's Religious Diversity
6 Dec
2:30-4:00pm
Room 104 Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity: Teachings of the Traditions 6 Dec 2:30-4:00pm Room 106
Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity: Current Initiatives 7 Dec 2:30-4:00pm
Room 106
Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity: A Call for Collaboration 8 Dec 2:30-4:00pm Room 219
Sacred Sites, Sacred Solidarity Working Session 2 8 Dec Room 207
4:30-6:00pm
108 PWR- Parliament of the World's Religions
Jain Education Intemational
Science and Religion
This symposium is presented in partnership with the International Society for Science and Religion.
The relationship between science and religion is complex and difficult to navigate. New scientific discoveries can often challenge religious worldviews and present previously unimagined questions about ethics and morality. Yet many religious and spiritual traditions have histories and doctrines fully compatible with the desire to study the natural world and humanity's place within it. With the current ecological crisis, the advent of neuroscience and other developments, religion and science must find ways to become interrelated - not mutually exclusive - paths to knowledge and wisdom about the world. This symposium consists of results-oriented workshops because our planet no longer has time for us to dwell on abstractions. These sessions will examine compassion as an essential principle of interest for diverse traditions and scientific disciplines alike and will facilitate real-world strategies for making change for humanity and for the earth.
See back of book for full descriptions.
Schedule:
The Warfare is Over: Science and Spirituality as Allies for the Sake of the Planet (Session 1]
5 Dec 9:30-11:00am
Room 210
Science, Spirituality, and Overcoming Religious Conflict (Session 2)
5 Dec
11:30am-1:00pm
Room 210 Religion, Science, and Environmental Activism (Session 3) 5 Dec 2:30-4:00pm Room 210 The Practicalities of Getting from 'Is' to 'Ought': Religion, Science and Ethics
5 Dec 4:30-6:00pm Room 105 Transforming Compassion in Science and Religion (Session 6 Dec 9:30-11:00am Transforming Compassion in Science and Religion (Session
1)
Room 109
Room 109
The New Archaic: Neuroscience, Spiritual Practice and Healing
7 Dec
2)
7 Dec 9:30-11:00am
11:30am-1:00pm Room 216
Global Ecological Crisis: A Time for the Reunion of Science and Religion?
7 Dec 2:30-4:00pm
Room 108
Darwin in the Dreaming
8 Dec 11:30am-1:00pm
Room 102
Interpreting the Text: Creationism, Intelligent Design and Evolution
9 Dec
Room 209
9:30-11:00am