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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Program Descriptions
Sunday, July 11, 2004 INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Rachel Agoyo, San Juan Pueblo, received her M.S. from the University of New Mexico and developed and managed the first Headstart Program at Cochiti Pueblo. Later, she held the position of Headstart Director for the Sandoval County Pueblos. She has been featured in the PBS program "Colores" and "Surviving Columbus."
Ana Schlüter has a Ph. D. in Philosophy and has been a member of a Catholic religious order called "Women of Be Tania" since 1958. She has been a professor of ecumenism in several universities of theology. She is also a Zen master appointed by the Japanese Zen master Yamada Koun Roshi; she founded a Zen center in Brihuego, which has an acknowledged prestige all over the country
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 in Kyoto Japan.
Interpretation of Religious Texts from the Perspective of Women's and Children's Human Rights Annie Imbens-Fransen Ghazala Sharif
Room 123, English/Spanish Interactive Workshop
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 Clon). 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.
Literature as a tool for Shaping Children's Consciousness Elizabeth Stewart
United Nations officials and numerous organizations active in the field of women's and children's human rights, continue to give alarming details about the different forms of violence that women and children are suffering all over the world. Becoming aware of these forms of violence is a necessary condition in order to work to stop and prevent them. In this interactive workshop, participants will exchange details about the details of motivations for violence against women and children in various religious and cultural traditions, and exchange aspects of those religious communities and methods of interpretation that can motivate respect, justice and solidarity.
Room 121, English Lecture
Annie Imbens-Fransen is a Dutch feminist theologian, and founded the Foundation for Pastoral Care for Women. A Coolidge Fellow of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, she is a convenor of United Religious Initiative Research and Development Group on Religious Rights and Responsibilities.
Elizabeth-Anne Stewart will explore the ways in which literature can affect a child's values and attitudes, either expanding awareness or limiting it. Drawing on her book Dragut's Galleon, she will demonstrate how a single book can influence elementary school children, offering them a corrective lens through which to view long-standing ethnic and religious prejudices. Issues of curriculum, text selection, parental involvement and the creation of programs to promote interreligious understanding among children will also be addressed.
Ghalaza Sharif is Adjunct Professor of Religion at the Kendall School of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Cofounder of the Interfaith Dialogue Association, Grand Rapids, Michigan, she is intensively involved in interreligious dialogue.
Ms. Stewart's works focus on spiritual growth, personal empowerment, transformation of consciousness, cultural diversity, sexism and gender issues. Author of more than 80 articles on spirituality, she was born in England and raised on the island of Malta. She holds a D.Min. Foundation and a Ph.D. from the University of Malta.
The History of Protestantism in Spain and Religious Pluralism Gabino Fernández Campos
Room 124 Lecture
Religious Bilingualism Ana Schlüter
This is a lecture presenting a part of history that is little known and gives information about the roots of the religious pluralism in Spain.
Room 122, Spanish/English Lecture
Gabino Fernández Campos is a writer and an historian, and the director of the Reform Study Center (Centro de Estudios de la Reforma).
This is a lecture about the experience of Christian-Buddhist dialogue in the Zen Do Be Tania community. It is an experience of unity in diversity, that will focus on spiritual experience and the relationship between orthodoxy and orthopraxis.
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