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Joint
Symposium of Harvard University’s Yenching Institute and Center for the
Study of World religions and IOP: “Perspective on Religion and Globalization”
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October 7, 2005, the symposium “Perspective on Religion and
Globalization” was held at the Center for the Study of World Religions
(CSWR) at Harvard
Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It was cosponsored by the Institute of Oriental Philosophy (IOP),
Harvard University’s Yenching Institute and the CSWR. Some 50 Harvard
scholars discussed the role of religion in coping with various issues
of the global community such as the growing disparity between the haves
and have-nots, the rise in international terrorism and the
environmental
degradation that has reached alarming levels.
Panelists and topics were as follows: “‘Globalization’ in Historical
Perspective: A View from Thai Buddhism,” CSWR Director Donald Swearer;
“Humanity, Earth and the Universe: A Viewpoint of Mahayana Buddhism,”
IOP Director Yoichi Kawada; “The Lotus Sutra and the Dialogue of
Religions,” IOP Senior Research Fellow Hiroshi Kanno; and “Toward a
Dialogical Civilization: Religious Leaders as Public Intellectuals,” Tu
Weiming, Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
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