The 2004 WCER Congress (4th – 6th June 2004)

Invitation and Programme

Date:

2004, June 4-5-6

Location:

Ioinic Centre
Athens, Greece

Theme:

The High Values Of The pre-Christian Ethnic Traditions and Religions

Programme:

FRIDAY 4/5/2004
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09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Welcome, Opening Ceremony, Salutations
09:45 – 10:00 Blessing Ceremony by Arvinder Singh
10:00 – 10:20 JONAS TRINKUNAS, “Darna – the Central value of the Baltic Culture”
10:20 – 10:40 MICHAEL STRMISKA, “Modern Academic Views of Ethnic Religion/Paganism/Neopaganism”
10:40 – 11:00 PSARAKI MARINA, “The Hellenic Virtue as a guide for the contemporary humanity”
11:00 – 11:20 KOENRAAD LOGGHE, “Traditional ethics in the 21st century”
11:20 – 11:40 RAJINDER SINGH, “Survival of Pagan faith”
11:40 -12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 12:20 INIJA TRINKUNIENE, “Spiritual values of folklore in Modern Lithuanian society”
12:20 – 12:40 AIJA SVILANE, “Latvian Religion – Dievturiba”
12:40 – 13:00 PEDRO ORTEGA, “The cults of the Ibers and their relationship with other mediterranean and European people”
13:00 – 13:20 ARVINDER SINGH, “Sikhism and Paganism – A modern approach”
13:20 – 13:40 VIRGINIJA KONDRATIENE, “Basics of legal protection of ethnic culture in Lithuania and in Europe”
13:40 – 14:00 GUNTER STIENECKE, “Eldaring and Heathenism in Germany”
14:00 – 15:20 Lunch
15:20 – 15:40 DR T H CHOWDARY, “The High Values of Bharat’s (India’s) Sanatana Dharma (Eternal ‘Religion’) and It’s Traditions and their Universal Acceptability”
15:40 – 16:00 IEVA DAMBE, “Invasion of Christianitty in the territory of Latvia in the 13th century”
16:00 – 16:20 VOLHV MEZAMYR, “Presentation of Native Belive Church ‘Ridna Pravoslavna Vira’”
16:20 – 16:40 S P ATTRI, “Hitting the Basackward-Pyramid of Islam and Christianity”
16:40 – 17:10 Coffee break
17:10 – 17:30 SHYAM PARANDE, “Hindu- A Living Continuum”
17:30 – 17:50 DR RAQUEL SEIJAS COSTA, “Past and Present of Mythology in Galicia”
17:50 – 18:30 Salutations from WCER members who couldn’t attend the congress

SATURDAY 5/5/2004
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13:30 – 14:00 Registration
14:00 – 14:20 ROMANS PUSSARS, “Comparison of Latvian Religion Dievturiba and Christianity”
14:20 – 14:40 SWAMI PRABUDDHANANDA SARASWATI, “India – Spiritual culture and its impact on west”
14:40 – 15:00 CLAUDIO SIMEONI, “Freedom in Ancient Religions as foundation for Polytheistic Paganism”
15:00 – 15:20 ALEXANDER PETSKO, “Whether will survive Ethnic cultures and religions of the indigenous Europe”
15:20 – 15:40 Coffee Break – End of speeches
15:40-18:30
W.C.E.R. internal discussions
• How to improve the work of WCER Council, because at the moment it is not very effective
• Website wcer.org administration
• “Oaks” preparation question
• WCER and the question of membership in United Nations
• Question of resolutions
• Finance and legal issues – WCER annual subscription
• Location of WCER conference in 2005

SUNDAY 6/5/2004
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09:00 – 18:00 Excursion to the ancient Greek temple of God Poseidon and Goddess Athina Sounias at cape Sounio and WCER ceremony.

Cultural programme: Saturday 20:30 – 22:30  “Dora Stratou” open theatre show: “Greek traditional dances”