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 DE
Monday, December 7, 2009
will be a workshop/seminar in which we engage participants from different religious/spiritual communities in awakening our experience of interconnection, helping us to expand our identities beyond self and other to 'We'. Working together, we can begin the ongoing work of hearing each other and healing the earth by healing each other while hearing the earth.
John L Hochheimer is Professor of Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He received his doctorate in Communication from Stanford University in 1986. His primary work has been in the area of Spirituality in Media, Communication and Education, with an emphasis on community-based efforts to promote reconciliation in post-traumatic societies.
The Muslim Green: Muslim
Contributions to Healing the Earth
Norah Ziad Elmagraby
Dr Fahad A Alhomoudi
Imam Afroz Ali
Dr Bagher Talebi Darabi
Dr Nargis Virani
Room 219 Panel Discussion
For many Muslims, the color green represents a connection to the beauty and promise of nature-on Earth and in Paradise. Nearly 800 of the 6,236 verses in the Qur'an reference nature and its relationship to humanity. Through the lenses of scholarship, activism and the arts, this panel will discuss the Muslim connection to nature and the environment as well as many Muslims' approach to healing the Earth coming from Sunni, Sufi and Shi'a perspectives. Panellists will discuss the role of protecting the environment and natural resources in Islamic Law, the rights of the environment in Islam with special emphasis on water management principles, Rumi's views on the dynamism of the relationship between humans and nature, the environmental crisis and human health from a Shi'a Islam viewpoint, and more.
Norah Ziad Elmagraby is a Junior Nursing student at Dar Al-Hekma College, where she is founder of the Dar Al-Hekma Recycling club and Student Government President. She is also on the Dean's list for academic excellence. She participated in Zaied University's Youth Delegation to Dubai in 2008 for the Women as Global Leaders conference and led many community service projects.
Dr Fahad A Alhomoudi obtained his PhD in Islamic Law from McGill University (2006). He was appointed a Vice-Dean for academic research at Imam University in Saudi Arabia (2007) and was awarded a Fulbright scholar award (2008). In addition to his native Arabic, Alhomoudi speaks English and French and can read Persian. Alhomoudi has published two books and several articles. His research covers Islamic Law. Environmental Law, Prophetic Tradition, and Interfaith Dialogue. Imam Afroz Ali is the Founder and President of the Sydney-based Al-Ghazzali Centre for Islamic Sciences & Human Development. He has received licences to teach in various Islamic Sciences, having learned from the most esteemed Islamic scholars of our time. He has initiated philanthropic as well as sustainable environmental projects in Australia and abroad and continues to advocate peace, acceptance, justice and interpersonal rights. Ali received the International Ambassador for Peace. award.
Bagher Talebi Darabi is a Faculty Member of Adyan University in Qom. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Culture from the Allameh Tabatabaee
4:30-6:00pm OPEN SPACE
University, Tehran. He translated 'The Essential Talmud", written by Adin Stiensaltz, into the Persian language and has contributed several articles on issues such as New Religious Movements, New Age and Sociology of Religion to both domestic and international conferences.
Dr Nargis Virani is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at The New School University in New York City. Born in Mumbai, India, she has studied and taught at universities around the Middle East and North America and received her MA and PhD from Harvard University. A scholar of pre-modern Islamic Thought and Mystical Literatures, her research interests concentrate on multilingual literatures developed in a Muslim milieu.
Does the Media Have Faith? - Daily Youth Workshop
Joseph Youhana
Jan Shamoon Kalyan Ky Nosrat Hosseini Maryam Marqos Tina Hosseini
Room 220
It is fair to say that religion does not get a good rap in the media. Nine times out of ten the story is negative. But where does the responsibility lie in changing the way the media reports on religion? This interactive workshop, facilitated by members of the Ethnic Youth Council, will explore the impact media stories about religion have on the individual and community using small group discussions and role plays.
OPENSPACE 4:30-6:00pm
Spanish Language Session 2 of 2
Ruth Broyde Sharone Room 101 Interactive Workshop
Esto es para nosotros, gente de habla español, un simposium interactivo dedicado a los participantes de Latinoamérica que se encuentran en el Parlamento de Melbourne. Este simposium, en nuestro idioma, nos brindará oportunidades de conocernos y de conectarnos. Vamos a examinar detalladamente los desafíos particulares de America Latina en el campo interreligioso, y vamos a contemplar como se podría realizar el gran potencial de nuestras comunidades, ciudades, y países. Recién empezamos pero ya vamos forjando nuestro proprio camino. Somos gente de imaginación y de talento y ha llegado el momento de reconocer que tenemos mucho que contribuir al movimiento interreligioso global.
La segunda parte es para vincular nuestras comunidades con el Parlamento global. Vamos a soñar juntos, a crear iniciativas para compartir recursos y ideas, simultaneamente entre nosotros y con gente de todo el mundo. Tenemos ya ejemplos de gran actividad y de potencial,
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