Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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CALL ΤΟ OUR GUIDING INSTITUTIONS
1999
to counter the often dehumanizing sameness of globalized mass culture by supporting local and regional traditions and cultures;
to promote models for the arts and communications media that give voice to all peoples, cultures, and conditions, ensuring their active involvement in deliberations on issues that face the world;
to establish and enliven liaisons with religious, interreligious, and intercultural groups, in order to increase journalistic coverage and artistic representation of society's religious, spiritual, interreligious, and intercultural dimensions;
to eliminate religious, ethnic, and cultural caricatures and stereotypes that devalue the experience of human beings and demean their essential dignity;
to invest effectively in artistic and journalistic projects that address in long-range terms the most critical problems facing the human community and the Earth;
to further art and aesthetic appreciation by offering all children art education, to include internationally and nationally acclaimed art-both contemporary and historical as well as the traditional art and crafts of each region.
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THE CALL TO THE ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA