About RVP

* RVP Newsletter Winter 2011/Spring 2012

RVP International Seminars (2012)

March 26-April 6, Washington, D.C -- "Role of Religion in Public Discourse: Recent Development in the Thought of Jürgen 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)

February 21-22, 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)

May 21-22, Vientiane, Laos -- "Cultural Traditions and Goals for Human Development Today" (Laos Academy of Social Sciences)

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)

June 7-8, Ulan-Ude, Siberia, Russia -- "Interrelation of Eurasian Cultures in a Global Age" ( Buryat State University)

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

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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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