Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

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

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PROGRAM Sunday, December 6, 2009
4:30-6:00pm OPEN SPACE
Education for Successful Societies Elias Szczytnicki Simon Xavier Guerrand - Hermes Katherine Marshall Stephen Hanmer Room 109
An Islamic Conscience: the Aga Khan and the Ismailis Shamir Allibhai, Producer/Director Room 107 Film and Discussion The Aga Khan has been the spiritual leader of 15 million Ismaili Muslims for the past five decades. Born into wealth and privilege, he has devoted his life to eliminating poverty and inequality. At a time when Islam is at odds within itself and with the West, this film presents the Aga Khan as a voice of moderation, speaking out for pluralism, and promoting dialogue between civilisations. The film was directed by Jane Chablani, Bill Cran, and Shamir Allibhai. Shamir Allibhai is the Producer of An Islamic Conscience. He was previously the Commercial Director and part of the founding team of the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation. The Documentary Film Foundation is a nonprofit organisation that funds documentary filmmakers and runs BRITDOC, the UK's first documentary feature film festival, which Shamir was instrumental in launching. Shamir is a candidate for a Master's of Theological Studies in Islamic Studies from the Harvard Divinity School
Education is sacred to many religious traditions, and faith communities are leaders in both thinking about education and running educational institutions, from preschools through advanced studies. The role faith communities play turns out not only on service delivery but also on the question: 'Education for what?' a question that signifies how important the issue of values is to the enterprise of education. Education, education, education is a common response to the question of what area deserves highest priority in building successful societies. This session will reflect on religion's roles in education worldwide, highlighting the experience of Jesuit education, the Aga Khan Development Network, and the Gulen movement. The presenters will explore the debates about whether and how basic knowledge about different faith traditions should be a core component of curricula. Elias Szczytnicki is Secretary General and Regional Director, Religions for Peace Latin America and the Caribbean. Before, he was Member, National Executive Committee, Consensus-Building Table on Fight against Poverty of Peru, and Member, Committee on Supervision and Transparency, National Program on Direct Support for the More Poor People Together, Mr Szczytnicki holds a Bachelor's degree in history from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and is a graduate from the Program on Jewish Organization Direction of the Leatid Center Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermes is the Chairman of the GHFP board, Vice Chairman of Hermes of Paris, and board member of Hermes International, He is also Chairman of Eden Development and Treasurer of Religions for Peace. He is a Honourary Fellow of Oxford University Katherine Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Visiting Professor in the Government
ent and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She leads the Berkley Center's work on faith-inspired institutions working in development, involving a series of regional background papers and consultations with academics and practitioners, and a series of reviews of development topics. Stephen Hanmer, a UNICEF Partnerships Advisor, supports UNICEF's faith based partnerships
Knit Together in Love: Communities Enriched by Altruistic Handicrafting Alison Hood Room 108 Academic Paper and Interactive Workshop When you make a handmade object, you reconnect to the process of creation. You transform raw materials into a finished product, rather than simply buying a mass-produced item. You experience fellowship and connectedness with other craftspeople, as well as with those for whom the object is intended. This research-based workshop will highlight individuals and small groups that employ their handcrafting skills to make unique textile objects, created for the sole purpose of giving them to those in need, often complete strangers. Knitters and crocheters are welcome to bring their crafts with them to work on as we discuss how, through engaging in this process, individuals build relationships with themselves, each other, and the community at large. This session will focus in particular on how knitters and crocheters respond to the needs of the community, as well as their empowering role as stewards of knowledge, skills, and resources. These creative processes are explored using the theoretical framework of "lived religion, which examines how religion and spirituality function in the creative process of handicraft, as well as how they are manifested within the daily lives of people who participate in them. Alison Hood is Chair of Religious Studies at Huntington University. She teaches courses pertaining to the contemporary issues of technology. spirituality, and ritual and their effects on life experiences. Alison is a member of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and is currently pursuing her Doctorate at the University of Queensland, researching altruistic handcrafting as 'lived religion. She holds a BA from laurentian University and an MA from Wilfrid Laurier University
Religious Leadership in a Global Perspective Rabbi Dr Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Moderator Dharma Master Hsin Tao Jinwol Lee Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Imam Feisal Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh Rabbi David Rosen HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati HH Swami Amarananda HH Dadi Janki Sr Joan Chittister Room 203 Recently religious leaders affiliated with the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders gathered in the Holy Land to discuss
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