Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

SR No.: 529503
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 242
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, USA_Parliament of World Religion, & USA
File Size: 10 MB

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1999 PARLIAMENT
CRITICAL ISSUES
consciousness and awaken a spirit of caring in societies around the world. By engaging and inspiring people to join a global family of organizations and coalitions, we hope to more effectively help bring about our collective social, ecological, and spiritual healing.
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Rick Ulfik is the director of We, The World. He is also the Co-chair of the National Board of The Foundation for Ethics and Meaning and is the leader of its Media Task Force as well as co-leader of its Education Task Force. He is an organizer and Task Force member for the annual Season For Nonviolence Gandhi/King events at the United Nations and other Interfaith Center programs. He is also an accomplished composer and media producer and has written and directed two films.
4:00 PM-4:45 PM IN ENGINEERING 3.15 Healing Our House: An Interfaith Truth & Reconciliation Service
Rev. Aaron Zerah
Religious communities have been at some time both victims and victimizers. Religiously based violence or oppression affects most people today, including Parliament attendees. In this workshop, Rev. Zerah wants participants to acknowledge the truth, take responsibility, and pray together for healing and reconciliation to take place.
Rev. Aaron Zerah, is an ordained Interfaith minister and the Founder of the Interfaith Seminary in Santa Cruz, California. He is the author of the Soul's Almanac: A Year of Interfaith, Stories, Prayers and Wisdom for the up coming Age of Interfaith.
4:00 PM-5:30 PM IN COMMERCE 2.57 Interfaith Perspectives On Resolving Conflict in the New Millennium
Rama J. Vernon
This workshop will cover the ancient origins of conflict from Vedic and Biblical sources, psychological roots, content-context orientation and ethnic diversity. Participants will learn how to use the underlying spiritual principles of all religions, and learn how they can lead to healing conflicts within themselves, their communities and organizations - and ultimately between nations. A new view of conflict will be explored as an evolutionary process leading to three variances of "peace" and cycles of reconciliation in international dialogue. The goal of the workshop is to teach participants how they can contribute to the development of a more peaceful and sustainable world. Rama J. Vernon is Founder of Women of Vision and Action. She is the president of the Center for International Dialogue and cofounder of the Academy for Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies. She has traveled to the Soviet Union 48 times in seven years, organizing over 200 SovietAmerican programs. In 1991, she was invited to organize and design conflict resolution dialogues for areas of regional conflict in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Africa and the Middle East.
4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN ENGINEERING 1.22 Prostitution: An Outcry for Integrating Spirituality and Sexuality
Ms. Judith Kotzé
This workshop will explore the causes, implications, and directions for rectifying the proliferation of prostitution. This workshop will explore all of the groups of people who are involved in prostitution - from those who employ prostitutes to the communities from which these prostitutes originate. This workshop will engage participants in exploring how the integration of spirituality and sexuality can help resolve this issue.
Judith Kotze has been working in the Multidisciplinary ministry on issues of prostitution for the last four years. She is a qualified Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and is the coordinator for the Sameille project which works with street sex workers in the Western Cape. She is currently pursuing her Masters degree in Theology at the University of Stellenbosch.
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Sacred Scripture, Women, and Interreligious Dialogue
Ms. Ulrike Wiethaus
This presentation looks at the use of sacred scripture in interreligious dialogue with special attention given to the role of women. Ulrike Wiethaus will present her work on myths as mimetic texts, which often serve as resources for women in interreligious dialogue.
Ulrike Wiethaus is an Associate Professor in the Humanities Program at Wake Forest University. She holds her Ph. D. in Religious Studies from Temple University. She has published three books on the religious experience of medieval Christian women mystics, and has offered numerous workshops on women's spiritual processes and mythology She is currently working on a volume of essays on the construction of gender in Christian mysticism.
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN ENGINEERING 3.44 Spiritual Belief Systems and their Impact on the Environment
Ms. Arlene Cameron
Our spiritual beliefs have had a profound effect on natural systems from population explosion to deforestation. Our current crisis results from a false value system, where scientific, rational information is deemed more valid than spiritual, intuitive wisdom. Exploitation and financial gain tend to motivate more than conservation and ethics. A new paradigm of respect and sensitivity, with a practical approach, is urgently needed.
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN SCIENCE 3.49
Using Our Faith Traditions and Spiritual Tools in Faith and Community Health Initiatives
Rev. Carol A. Johnson
Our faith traditions provide a powerful means and incentive for creating wellness and responding to disease with our respective communities. We will first present health and faith collaborations that have worked in the past. Then we will strategize on how to create more collaborations by highlighting potential resources and collaborators with some government initiatives, public health initiatives, academic organizations, and private industry initiatives.
Reverend Carol A. Johnson, MTS is currently working on Doctorate of Ministry and preparing for Unitarian Universalist Community Ministry at Meadville/ Lombard Theological School at University of Chicago. Carol recently earned a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard University. where, as a student she founded Harvard AIDS Ministries, Harvard's GospelFest for AIDS during AIDS Awareness Week and worked with Dr. White to create and teach curriculums for theological and ethical examinations of public health issues. Additionally, they worked to mobilize, empower and educate church lay religious leaders to address issues of infant morbidity and mortality in Boston. They used numerous tools to measure faith impacts, awareness and knowledge gains.
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