World Parliament of Religions
The World Parliament of Religions is a meeting of representatives of all major religions with the aim of a peaceful dialogue that meets at different intervals in different places.
history
The First Parliament of the World's Religions met in Chicago in 1893 as part of the World Columbian Exposition . More than 4,000 representatives of Christian denominations and other religions took part, including the Indian Swami Vivekananda , who appeared there in public for the first time in the West .
It was not until 100 years later, in 1993, that the World Parliament of Religions met for the second time. Since then, meetings have been held every five to six years, but the intervals have recently become shorter. With the establishment of the World Parliament of Religions, the tendency towards a universal religious synthesis based on countries such as India, Japan and North America also spread to Europe with a slight delay. Over 4,000 people attended the opening ceremony alone. The Japanese monk Soyen Shaku used the founding as an opportunity to travel to Chicago with his student Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , who later became the spokesman for the Zen movement in the West.
At the 1993 parliament there was a declaration on the global ethic with the English title: Declaration - Toward a Global Ethic .
Overview of the meetings
| year | from | to | place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1893 | September 11 | September 27th | Chicago , USA |
| 2. | 1993 | August 28th | September 4th | |
| 3. | 1999 | December 1 | December 8th | Cape Town , South Africa |
| 4th | 2004 | 7th of July | July 13th | Barcelona , Spain |
| 5. | 2009 | 3rd of December | 9th of December | Melbourne , Australia |
| 2014 | called off | Brussels , Belgium | ||
| 6th | 2015 | 15th October | October 19th | Salt Lake City , USA |
| 7th | 2016 | July 25th | July 28th | Nitra , Slovakia |
| 8th. | 2018 | November 1st | November 7th | Toronto , Canada |
See also
literature
- Lüddeckens, Dorothea: The world parliament of religions from 1893. Structures of interreligious encounters in the 19th century. de Gruyter, Berlin 2002; ISBN 3-11-017256-9
- Wedemeyer, Inge von: On the way to the harmony of religions. Facts and tendencies towards the realization of a universal ecumenism. Kristkeitz, Heidelberg 1992; ISBN 3-921508-47-9
- Slaby, Michael: From “Unity in Diversity” to “Diversity in Unity”: How I deal with religious diversity at the World Parliament of Religions and its centenary. Unpublished master's thesis, Faculty of Philosophy, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, 2005.
- Ziolkowsky, Eric J. (Ed.): A Museum of Faiths: Histories and Legacies of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions. Atlanta Georgia, 1993, Scholars Press.
Web links
- World Parliament of Religions , Official Site, (eng.)
- Videos: Portal , (eng.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Peter Steinfels: Religions endorse peaceful paths. In: New York Times . September 5, 1993, accessed May 14, 2014 .
- ^ Dorothea Lüddeckens: World Parliament of Religions of 1893: Structures of Interreligious Encounters in the 19th Century , pp. 186 and 189; Gruyter Verlag GmbH , Berlin 2002
- ↑ a b c d e f Mohan K. Tikku: After the Swami in Chicago. In: The Hindu . February 27, 2011, accessed May 14, 2014 .
- ^ Dorothea Lüddeckens: World Parliament of Religions of 1893: Structures of Interreligious Encounters in the 19th Century , p. 186, Gruyter Verlag GmbH , Berlin 2002
- ↑ Dorothea Lüddeckens: World Parliament of Religions of 1893: Structures of Interreligious Encounters in the 19th Century , pp. 112–114, 187 and 189; Gruyter Verlag GmbH , Berlin 2002
- ↑ Declaration of the Parliament of the World Religions. In: weltethos.de. Retrieved May 13, 2014 .
- ↑ World Parliament of Religions answers request: Parliament in Brussels was canceled. We are currently searching for a host city for the next Parliament for 2017 , date: May 15, 2014
- ↑ 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions. 2015, accessed December 26, 2015 .
- ↑ 2018 Toronto , parliamentofreligions.org, accessed January 12, 2019.