About RVP

* RVP Pro-Congress Conference in Athens (2013)

RVP International Seminars (2012)

March 26-April 6, Washington, D.C. -- "Role of Religions in Public Discourse: Recent Development in the Thought of Jurgen Habermas" (Spring)

September 24-October 26, Washington, D.C -- "Building Community in Mobile, Global Age" (Fall)

October 1-26, Beirut, Lebanon -- "The Value of Compassion and Forgiveness in the World Philosophical Traditions" (Fall)

RVP International Conferences (2012)

Africa

November 1-3, Johannesburg, South Africa -- "Humanities and Social Sciences in an African Context: Education for Life" and "Thomisms in Contemporary Africa" (St Augustine College)

November 5-6, Durban, South Africa -- "Religion, Values and Secular Culture" (University of Kwazulu-Natal)

November 6-7, Ibadan, Nigeria -- "Islam and Modernism in Nigeria" (University of Ibadan and Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran)
November 8-9, Cape Town, South Africa -- "Religion and Philosophy in the African Context" (University of the Western Cape)

November 12-13, Harare, Zimbabwe -- "Philosophy, Tradition and Progress in Africa" (University of Zimbabwe)

November 15-16, Addis Abba, Ethiopia -- "Global Challenges and the Vocation of Philosophy" (Addis Abba University)

November 22-23, Kampala, Uganda -- "Africa in the Emerging New World Order: Development, Culture and State" (Makerere University)

China

May 25-27, Wuhan, China -- "Transcendence and Immanence in Confucianism and Christianity" (Wuhan University)
May 29-30, Wuhan, China -- "Dialogue and Cooperation among Cultures and Civilizations" (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
June 2-3, Beijing, China -- "Traditional Values and Virtues in Social Life Today" (Remin [People's] Universtiy of China)

Poland

September 13-14, Poznan, Poland -- "Identities and Modernization" (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Russia

February 23-24, Washington, D.C. -- "In Search of Culturally Based Civil Societies" (Russian People's Friendship University)
April 19-21, Moscow, Russia -- "Philosophy and Spirituality across Cultures and Religious Traditions " (Russian People's Friendship University)
June 7-8, Ulan-Ude, Siberia, Russia -- "Interrelation of Eurasian Cultures in a Global Age" ( Buryat State University)

(N.B. As a unique honor, the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) adds its sponsorship to all RVP conferences.)

The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP)

Goals

- To understand and appreciate one?s own culture and the values that shape aspirations and motivate actions.

- To understand other cultures and to develop a positive yet critical appreciation thereof.

- To build cooperation among peoples by healing deep tensions and promoting peace and cooperation on a global scale.

Objectives

- To mobilize research teams to study the nature, interpretation and development of cultures and to apply them to the challenges of contemporary change.

- To publish and distribute the results of these efforts.

- To organize extended seminars for deeper exploration of these issues and regional conferences for the coordination of this work.

Project on "Faith in a Secular Age"

Project on "Faith in a Secular Age"
(launched a 15 month research project on November 19, 2009)Typical of the exodus of people in their 20s and 30s from Church identification are young persons who seem not to have abandoned their basic beliefs or concern for the spiritual dimension of their lives, but to reflect these in an attitude of search rather than of commitment. In response this research project will focus on unfolding the meaning of the heritage of the faith for the new dimensions and needs of our evolving human awareness, its challenges and opportunities. The goal is to make ?belief more believable,? for both the contemporary ?seeker? and indeed for all the faithful, and thereby to render all of personal and social life more fully human and thereby more expressive of the divine... For detailed description and program please visithttp://www.crvp.org/seminar/seminar_10.htm

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