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Event Details

5th Annual World Religion Workshop Series

Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:00pm
Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:00pm
Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:00pm
Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 6:00pm
Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 6:00pm
Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:00pm

Santa Barbara Unity, 227 E. Arrellaga Street, Santa Barbara

Event Description

Unity Church of Santa Barbara presents the 5th Annual World Religion Series. This summer our speakers will define the roles of spirituality and religion in society: their common goals, their differences, and how they uniquely effect society. You will learn about the separation of church and state, why it is so and how it should best evolve and grow. Come and hear about the major changes occurring and how to increase your relationship to higher power, the source within which we live and move and have our being.

Six Wednesday evenings June 11 - July 16

Potluck meal at 6:00 – Meditation at 7:00 – Program begins at 7:30 P.M.

June 11 “Daoism and Society in China or How the Concept of Religion Destroyed Daoism” William Powell, Ph.D. in History of Religions, Professor in Department of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB; author of “The Silk Road: The Oxford Companion to Archeology.”

June 18 “The Current Crisis in Tibet: Religion and Politics on the Roof of the World” Jose Cabezon, Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, XIVth Dalai Lama Professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Religious Studies Program, UCSB.

June 25 “The Self, the Soul and Spirituality from a Jewish Perspective” Rabbi Allison R.H. Conyer, Executive Director Santa Barbara Hillel, B.A. Psychology, first female Rabbi in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

July 2 “Spiritual but not Religious: A New Look at this Popular Description” Wade Clark Roof Ph.D. UCSB J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, Director of Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life.

July 9 “Life, Liberty, and the Experience of Happiness” C. Edward Crowther, Ph.D., LL.M, Lawyer, Episcopal Bishop, Counseling Psychologist, first moderator of Mind – Supermind series, civil rights activist in apartheid South Africa, author of several books including “Where Religion Gets Lost in the Church.”

July 16 “Religion in the Future and How to Get There” James L. Kwako M.D., Family Physician; past Medical Director of Cottage Hospital, Meadowlark Retreat Center, and Pain and Health Center; Minister, International Church of Religious Science.