» religion http://www.catboant.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Europe Could Play A Key Role On Our Way To Become A Global Village http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/31/europe-could-play-a-key-role-on-our-way-to-become-a-global-village/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/31/europe-could-play-a-key-role-on-our-way-to-become-a-global-village/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:21:56 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=527 Dave Snowden, Welsh entrepreneur, was trained as a physicist and philosopher. This is why he loves Shakespeare and Einstein! His incredible background in complexity theory gives us some great insights on how to deal – and maybe solve – future challenges.

Dave’s prediction for the next decade: Europe could play a key role on our way to become a global village!

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/31/europe-could-play-a-key-role-on-our-way-to-become-a-global-village/feed/ 2 God as a Creative Mystery http://www.catboant.com/2009/07/14/god-as-a-creative-mystery-emergence/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/07/14/god-as-a-creative-mystery-emergence/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:59:47 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=150 The following interview explores the nature of man’s notion of GoD after science with theologian Gordon Kaufman. Kaufman believes there is a infinite creativity in the universe that defines all things material and immaterial as they arise and fall. This emergent quality , this creativity is God – not an anthropomorphic God – but a post-modern one, still transcendent beyond all human understanding and ultimately mysterious.

It was one of the most touching interviews I have ever done … it becomes very personal at the very end! Gordon Kaufman has some unusual things to say …

According Wikipedia Dr. Gordon D. Kaufman is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity (Emeritus) at Harvard University where he has taught since 1963. He has lectured widely, and taught at universities across the United States (Pomona College and Vanderbilt), and also in India, Japan, South Africa, England, and Hong Kong. Kaufman has been an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church for 50 years, and has been the subject of two Festschriften. He is a past president of the American Academy of Religion(1982)[1] and of the American Theological Society, as well as a member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. Kaufman is the author of over 12 books which have had a dramatic impact on how many in the mainline have considered the question of God language and religious naturalism. Among these are An Essay on Theological Method, God The Problem, Theology for a Nuclear Age, and In the Face of Mystery. This work earned him the 1995 American Academy of Religion Award for excellence among constructive books in religion.

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2009/07/14/god-as-a-creative-mystery-emergence/feed/ 1 David Weinberger’s take on information, emergence, science … http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/18/david-weinbergers-take-on-information-emergence-science/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/18/david-weinbergers-take-on-information-emergence-science/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:58:36 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=140 According to wikipedia David Weinberger is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as “a primer on Internet marketing”. Weinberger’s work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society. He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/18/david-weinbergers-take-on-information-emergence-science/feed/ 0 Creativity and Human Culture http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/08/liane-gaboras-take-on-reinventing-the-sacred/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/08/liane-gaboras-take-on-reinventing-the-sacred/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:17:24 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=134 Liane Gabora is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. In 2009 she is Associate Director of the PACE Center at Tufts University. She has over 70 publications and has given lectures worldwide on creativity and in what sense culture constitutes an evolutionary process. She has held research grants from Foundation for the Future, the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Flemish Government of Belgium. She is working on a book titled “Dawn of the Creative Mind: The Origin and Evolution of Human Culture”.
Parts of her theory are influenced by Stuart’s work – you can easily see in the video how familiar Liane is with his ideas. Richard and I liked very much her interpretation of the “adjacent possible”.

Liane has also written a “metaphysical comedy” about her own vision of a naturalistic God. Nice piece!

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/08/liane-gaboras-take-on-reinventing-the-sacred/feed/ 2 Isaac Mao on Sharism, Religion and Culture http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/05/isaac-mao-on-sharism-religion-and-culture/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/05/isaac-mao-on-sharism-religion-and-culture/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:15:19 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=128 Last week – in our first round of interviews to get this whole project here started – we’ve talked to Isaac Mao, the first chinese blogger and a Berkman Fellow. His idea and theory of sharism almost seems like the “ultimate vision” of our movie!

So please enjoy this interview with Isaac!

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