Singapore Baha'i Studies Review- Volume 4

The Singapore Baha'i Studies Review 1999 - Volume 4, Number 1 MITA (P) 312/04/99

Challenges for the New Millennium

Journal of the Association for Baha'i Studies Singapore The views expressed in this journal do not necessarily reflect those of the Association, nor are they authoritative renderings of Baha'i belief.

Printed by Radiant Press Singapore

Papers

The Baha'i Faith and the Singapore Women's Movement: Challenges for the next Millennium 3 Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew

The Missing Moral Dimension 33 Suresh Sahadevan

The Human Spirit in Moral Education 55 Kuek Yi Hsing

The Language of the Heart: Parallels between Chinese and Baha'i Approaches to the Spiritual Self 69 Sim Tze Hong

Crossing Religious Boundaries: Interfaith Challenges for the Future 105 Anjam Khursheed

Special Supplement

Selected Talks and Statements on Interfaith Issues by Religious Leaders and Scholars 191 Compiled by Anjam Khursheed

Biographical Notes 273 Note from Editor

The annual Association for Baha'i Studies conference this year focused on the theme of "Challenges for the New Millennium". Some of the talks presented at the conference inspired the papers that appear in this volume. Also published in this issue, is a special Interfaith Supplement, which includes talks and addresses given by various religious leaders and scholars fromftround the world. The supplement is our dedication to the 50th Anniversary of the Inter-Religious Organisation of Singapore (IRO).

I would like to thank the Reverend Marcus Braybrooke for his help in providing various talks given under the auspices of the World Congress of Faiths organization, and his permission for me to reproduce them here. I would also like to thank Rabbi Mordechai Abergel for providing me with the Jewish talk in the Interfaith Supplement. I am in debt to Antonella Khursheed for type setting the journal, and to Lynette Thomas for the copy editing,

Anjam Khursheed December, 1999