_____________________________________________________ EUROPEAN NETWORK OF BUDDHIST CHRISTIAN STUDIES ______________________________________________________ N e t w o r k I n f o - M a g a z i n e ______________________________________________________ (c) by ENBCS March 2000 ______________________________________________________ Editors: Br. Josef Goetz : josef.ottilien@t-online.de Martin Roetting: roetting@iol.ie Internet: www.homepage.iol.ie/~roetting ________________________________________________________ Content ________________________________________________________ 1. Editors Note 2. INTR°A Project-Award for the Complementation of the Religions 3. Invitation to discussion: Paul O. Ingram, "Wrestling with the Ox, A Theology ofReligious Experience." (by Martin Rötting) ________________________________________________________ 1. EDITORS NOTE ________________________________________________________ Dear Reader, We are happy to give the third Newsletter-Magazine in to your hand. You will find this Newsletter-Magazine and the last ones avaliable for download on the homepage. If You have articles which would fit here or would be for interest, there is also a place at the homepage archive. Yours Martin Rötting Br. Josef Goetz OSB ________________________________________________________ 2. INTR°A Project-Award for the Complementation of the Religions ________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION INTR°A, the Interreligiöse Arbeitsstelle (Institute for Interreligious Studies) at Nachrodt (Westphalia, Germany), has been promoting the understanding between the religions ever since 1989. Therefore, the Foundation Appletree - Training Project for Co-Evaluation and Integration in Cologne - equally founded in 1989, proposed the INTR°A Project-Award for which it also accepted the financial responsibility. The award will be granted annually. It is designed for individuals, groups or institutions that promote the complementation of the religions in word and deed. Whoever is involved in or knows about such a project is invited to submit their project description to INTR°A. What will be exprected? Ž Innovative activities and projects that already have effectively promoted tolerance and reconciliation between the religions or inspired new models of interaction. Ž Projects with clear implications for interfaith practice, such as exhibitions, partnerships, models of practical cooperation and similar activities. Ž A detailed, scholarly description of a project, appropriately conveying an idea of the aims and means. Such a description can be submitted either in German or English. Projects are welcome from anywhere in the world. However, the jury or individual members of the jury should have the opportunity to gain a personal impression of the work in progress. The award amounts to DM 10 000 (= 5.000 Euro). The prize can be divided. An independent jury will decide about the award. The jury consists of: · Dr. Marien van den Boom, Amsterdam · Dr. Sybille Fritsch-Oppermann, Loccum · Anke Kreutzer, Bad Münstereifel · Dr. Herbert Schultze, Hamburg · Dr. Esther Seidel, London. Closing date: Project descriptions must be submitted by May 30th, 2000 The INTR°A Project Award will be granted on the occasion of an international conference in Weimar on October 29th, 2000. Further information may be obtained from: Interreligiöse Arbeitsstelle (INTR°A), (Institute for Interreligious Studies) B.O.Box 1201, D 58766 Nachrodt Tel. +49-2352-30483 oder +49-2371-836 155, Fax: +49-2371-795-107 E-Mail: interrel@t-online.de Internet: http://onderwijs.efa.nl/levonet/intra http://home.t-online.de/home/interrel/schulref.htm ________________________________________________________ 3. Invitation to discussion: Paul O. Ingram, "Wrestling with the Ox, A Theology ofReligious Experience." (by Martin Rötting) ________________________________________________________ Paul O. Ingram presents in his "Wrestling with the Ox" a "Theology of Religous Experience". The book published 1997 (Continuum Publishing Company), invites to a interesting discussion "On Dialogue between Liberation Theologians and Religious Pluralists". Ingram writes (p. 161) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Much of my dialogue with liberation theologians has been with feminists working to reform the partriachal power structures of their respective religous Ways. They have clarified for me that religious pluralists and liberation theologians of all varieties urgently need each other. First, the history of religions reveals just how important a force religious faith is and has always been, for better or worse, in engendering social, political, and economic change. .... (p 162) Liberation theologians have clarivied just how much interreligous dialogue has taken place in academic ivory towers overlooking the activities of death squads. Globally, theologians engaging in interreligious dialogue are gradually realizing that every religious idea and practice that fails to adress the varieties of poverty and opression that pollute all human communities are irrelevant. As David Tracy notes, interreligious dialogue without serious encounter with the challenges of liberation thought in all its varieties too easily becomes a mystical pursuit divorced from "real life" in the "real world", of interest and affordable only to a few ultra-academic dilettantes. ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please feel free to comment on this passages and the book in general. Of course a quotation like this is a shortage in itself and can just highlight some small ideas and not the general idea of the book. 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