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I am very impressed that this meeting is taking place, and will pray but I don't quite understand how it will "take" place
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I have been working very hard to promote peace, friendship and mutual respect among religions here in Kyoto Japan. Please look at the Kyoto Cosmos club's website (…Continue
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Dr. Morris Jerome Augustine Ph.D posted a discussionI am very impressed that this meeting is taking place, and will pray but I don't quite understand how it will "take" place
I have been working very hard to promote peace, friendship and mutual respect among religions here in Kyoto Japan. Please look at the Kyoto Cosmos club's website (www.kyotocosmos.org/). I am looking for an local Islamic member and a local Jewish member to join our monthly meeting. Please help if you can.PeaceMorris AugustineSee More
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- Religion / Faith
- Catholic
- I have attended the Parliament of Religions:
- Never
- Local Religious Community / Interfaith Affiliation:
- Member of St. Viator's Parish In Kyoto, Japan Member Kyoto Cosmos Club
- Website:
- http://www.kyotocosmos.org/
- I have come to PeaceNext looking for:
- networking, interreligious advocacy, intrareligious reflection, friendship
- I am inspired by:
- I am inspired the conviction that all religions are bound together by being inspired by the same combination of: 1) An original symbol of myth of origin, 2) A code of ethics generally agreed on by members of the local culture, always including compassion, 3) A set of rituals in which faith in this religion is reinforced and made strong (Cf. Robert N. Bellah (Sociologist of Religion first at Havard and then at Cal Berkeley (who directed my Ph.D thesis incorporating these ideas, Prof. Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute of Higher Studies (recently deceased). I want to do what I can to promote not just peace but mutual harmony and friendship
- My favorite spiritual places:
- Benares, India, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, India, the Taj Mahal, Jerusalem, Rome
- Interreligious causes I care about:
- Struggling against the recent conservative backlash of my Catholic Church against what was a marvelous encounter with Buddhist, Hinduism, Islam, etc. The Kyoto Cosmos Club
- Changes I am working toward in my community:
- Leading a group of the World Community of Christian Meditation that incorporated Eastern modes of meditation; writing a book demonstrating the need to rid the Catholic Church of its outmoded law that priests must vow celibacy to be ordained.
- About Me:
- I was a Benedictine Monk for 13 years, a Catholic priests for eight years, earned a doctorate in Moral Theology under Fr. Bernard Haring in Rome, during the Second Vatican Council, lost a tenure battle at an American Catholic university, apparently because I signed the protest again Paul VI's law forbidding all forms of artificial Birth Control. I earned a Ph. D. in History and Phenomenology of Religion focussed on Buddhism in a joint program at the University of California at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. I earned this degree after four years of research in the Department of Philosophy at Kyoto University, mostly funded by a fellowship from the Japanese Government's Department of Letters (Mombusho). After finishing my doctorate I was appointed full professor at Kansai University in Osaka where I taught for 24 years before retiring with full benefits at 69. both. Both while doing research and after my major interest and energy was focussed on Buddhist-Christian dialogue and encounter. I have published three books and some 35 academic articles. I am now 76 and in good health.
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I just want to pass my warm greetings to you Dear friends.
Have a good time.
Thanks.
Regards
Karl
I am the writer of the book named "Divine Brotherhood". "Divine Brotherhood" was published by Red Lead Press in 2007 and it is open to sales in Amazon.com now.
The events in the book take place in London in England. The Preface of the book has been written by Hasan KUŞÇUOĞLU.
Galip Hasan KUŞÇUOĞLU focusses on Love, Peace and Brotherhood for a new start in the life and a new way to live in his books and sayings in the web-site www.galibi.com .
Can you share your thoughts with us by looking into www.galibi.com or searching on him in the frame of Religions' Diologue.
I would be pleased to see your own ideas and thoughts as soon as possible, so that we would like to pray for you to go to heaven.
Thank you for getting in touch. I am interested and inspired by what I have read of your journey and your commitment to interfaith dialogue.
Can you send me your e mail address so we can continue the discussion that way? Mine is janderson@sgi.gr.jp
Looking forward to finding out more,
with best wishes,
Joan Anderson