The assembly is sponsored by the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR), started in 1893 at the Columbia Exposition (World's Fair) in Chicago, marking the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.
What does CPWR stand for?
CPWR stands for Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
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Both Chicago's social location at a time when the USA was more advanced technologically and its temporal location in a new post-Cold War role for a triumphant USA ideology of liberalism underpinned the early development of the locally based yet internationally oriented interreligious organization called the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions.
I have had the opportunity to work at the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, the Interfaith Youth Core, and the Pluralism Project.