Parliament of Worlds Religion 2004 Barcelona

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

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Join this group of Native American leaders as they discuss the work and goals of the Indigenous Environmental Network. The Network empowers Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining the Sacred Fire of our traditions. This program is a part of a series of programs highlighting the beliefs and practices of Native American peoples for the 2004 Pariliament.
Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. He recently co-produced an awardwinning documentary film, Drumbeat for Mother Earth, which addresses the affects of bioaccumulative chemicals on Indigenous peoples. From his participation and leadership in several summits. and meetings, he has emerged to become an Indigenous grassroots leader, both locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, and was an Indigenous delegate at the 3rd World Water Forum jn Kyoto Japan...
Omie Baldwin (Dine), MSW, LCSW organized the American Indian participation in the CPWR in both Chicago and Cape Town. She is a therapist/clinical Social Worker at the University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interest and involvement include peace, social justice, and environmental issues with indigenous people.
Rosita Worl, Ph.D. is a Tlingit of the Shangukeidi (Thunderbird) Clan From the Kawdliyaayi Hit (House Lowered from the Sun) in Klukwan, Alaska, and a Lukaax.adi yadi (Child of the Sockeye Clan). She serves as the President of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, and as a professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Juneau. She was elected to the Board of Directors of Sealaska Corporation and also serves as a Trustee of the National Museum of American Indians.
Between Jewish Pluralism and PostDenominationalism: A Jewish Roundtable
Michael Gottsegen
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
Daniel Brenner
Rabbi Ariel Edery
Rabbi Henry Sobel
Rabbi Capers Funnye
Room 115, Spanish/English/Catalan
Panel Discussion
This session is important for those who are committed to prevailing against forces that are at work in Jewish life that threaten to divide the community into utterly antagonistic camps. The dialogical openness to the Jewish other and the honesty of this conversation in itself should exemplify a pathway to peace, and should serve as a powerful model of a process which panelists and session attendees can take back to their home communities. This forum will not only talk about a principled pluralism that is predicated upon the recognition of the equal humanity and equal legitimacy of the other, but will also enact this pluralism dialogically. The basic norms of an authentic, deep and principled Jewish pluralism will also be discussed.
Program Descriptions Sunday, July 11, 2004
INTRARELIGIOUS SESSION 9:30 AM 11:00 AM
Michael Gottsegen is a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City. The author of The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt, and numerous articles, he is currently writing on the relationship among ethics, politics, and God in modern Jewish thought.
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield is Vice President of CLAL - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City. His is a thoughtful voice on issues of faith, doubt, and the importance of interfaith dialogue, and has been featured on television, radio, and in major newspapers across the country.
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Daniel Brenner is Director of the Multifaith Education Program of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, Daniel Brenner is the rabbi of String of Pearls congregation in Princeton, New Jersey. He has a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in both Hebrew Letters and Rabbinic Ordination.
Ariel Edery is the rabbi of Judia Atid. A native of Argentina, he moved to Jerusalem to study at Hebrew University. He worked as an educator within the Jewish community in Mexico City, and became the full-time rabbi of Congregation ATID in 2001, the first and only Progressive synagogue in Spain.
Rabbi Sobel is the Chief Rabbi of Brazil. He is the Coordinator of the National Commission for Religious Dialogue Between Catholics and Jews. He is committed to the strengthening of Jewish identity, the enhancement of interfaith relations, and the promotion of human rights.
Capers Funnye is Rabbi and spiritual leader of Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago, and a senior research associate at the Institute for Jewish & Community Research. He has also served as a consultant to several national museums and historical societies.
Microcredit for Interreligious and Community Development
Olajide Okeowo
Swami Shuddhananda Brahmachari
Room 116, Spanish/English/Catalan Interactive Workshop
Microcredit is the process of providing credit such as business and financial services to persons and families in the community who are in need. It helps to promote self-employment, and can help improve interrreligious and intrareligious relationships, when religious organizations provide microcredit assistance irrespective of religion. Families attain greater awareness of other religions, which in turn promotes peaceful living among community members. Mr. Olajide Okeowo will describe the work of Conscience Resources, and Swami Shuddhananda Brahmachari will speak about the Lokenath Divine Life Mission.
Olajide Odeowo has 13 years experience in Community Development with Conscience Resources - a community development organization which aims at developing communities nationally and internationally through the implementation of
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