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 DESEY
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Africa, Australia and other parts of the world; ethnocide against Jews, Muslims, and many kinds of Indigenous peoples. This doctrine is of urgent interest to contemporary Indigenous people as it continues to be the basis of certain types of law. Several initiatives are underway to deal with its debilitating effects. This panel is composed of various Indigenous speakers, academics, and religious activists who are dealing with the Doctrine of Discovery. The panel will address the global scope of this issue and proposed solutions from various communities.
Philip P Arnold is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Religions al Syracuse University. His books include 'Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan' and 'Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree' and 'Indigenous Religions: An Introduction Iforthcoming). For twenty years he has collaborated on a number of issues and events with the Haudenosaunee ['People of the Longhouse'), through leadership of the Onondaga Nation, which is Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, is a powerful and passionate spokesperson for Indigenous human rights and spiritual perspectives. An environmental champion, he speaks around the world, is active at the United Nations, and is widely known through his writings. He is a Professor Emeritus, in American Studies, SUNY Buffalo and the co-author of 'Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations and the U.S. Constitution.
Jake Swamp is employed with the Men for Change Program, part of the lethini'sten:ha Family Violence Shelter. He is a former leader of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and was involved directly in the creation of the Akwesasne Freedom School-an acclaimed Mohawk language immersion school that has been an inspiration to many First Nation peoples in the United States and Canada.
Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Esq is the North American representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and a professor of Native American law and human rights. She is president and founder of the American Indian Law Alliance, an NGO in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. An expert on the legal aspects of Indigenous peoples' rights, she is a veteran activist and advocate with long experience of the United Nations and its systems. Mary N MacDonald is an historian of religions who teaches at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, where she holds the O'Connell Professorship in the Humanities. Through her research on religions of Papua New Guinea, MacDonald has come to focus on environmental aspects of religion. An Australian of Scottish and Irish heritage, she is concerned with the claims that Indigenous peoples and settler peoples have to the land, and with the question of a just resolution to competing claims.
Mr Doug George-Kanentiio, Akwesasne Mohawk, is an editor, columnist and author. He has attended the last two Parliament events where he spoke on aboriginal issues of North America. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of the American Indian. Kanentiio is the author of three books including, 'Iroquois on Fire'. recently published by the University of Nebraska. He is the husband of the singer Joanne Shenandoah.
Religion's Imperative to Present
'the Other' Faithfully (Session 2)
Rabbi Dr Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Moderator Dipak Jain
Marcus Braybrooke
Paul Knitter
Ruben Habito
Balwant Singh Dhillon
Fr John Pawlikowski
Room 217
What is the religious imperative to present 'the other' faithfully? The need to accurately present traditions other
11:30am-1:00pm
INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION
than one's own is, to a large extent, a novel imperativegrowing out of our contemporary interfaith reality and a growing movement which seeks to cultivate harmonious intrareligious relations. Against a history of caricature and scorn that have long characterised the portrayal of the other in each of our traditions, we are now challenged to consider: what is the theological and spiritual basis that requires us to present the other faithfully? How can we turn to our traditions and find within them the call to represent the other faithfully-even positively-and how do we replace the older scornful view with an alternative presentation of the other?
Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute and director of the Centre for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, both in Jerusalem. He was ordained a rabbi in 1977. Projects of the Elijah Interfaith Institute include the bi-annual meeting of the board of World Religious Leaders, the Educational Network, as well as the Jewish and the Muslim Theology of the Religious Other.
Dr Dipak C Jain has been dean of the Kellogg School of Management since 2001. His career in education began as a student in Tezpur, northeast India. He earned his Master's Degree in Mathematical Statistics from Gauhati University in India and his PhD in Marketing from the University of Texas. Since 1989, Dean Jain has also been a visiting professor of marketing at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
Interfaith Dialogue in Victorian Schools
Grant Watson
Teachers and Students from Five Victorian
Independent Schools
Room 219
Interactive Workshop
The aim of this program is to highlight multifaith initiatives at five Victorian schools. The first school is Luther College, a coeducational Christian school in eastern Melbourne. During this section of the program, Luther College band and choir students will perform. St Columba's College is a Catholic school for girls, founded by the Sisters of Charity. Students will present a dance performance as an expression of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu faiths. Caulfield Grammar School is a multi-campus, independent school associated with the Anglican Church in Australia. Caulfield representatives will present a film of a conversation between Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and Christian students. Wesley College is a multi-campus, independent school associated with the Uniting Church in Australia. Representatives will demonstrate a multifaith religious education class lesson titled 'Teaching Islam in an Independent School. Minaret College is a multi-campus, independent, coeducational Islamic school serving the southeastern region of Melbourne. Since 9/11, the college has used effective strategies to protect and maintain social cohesion, respect, peace and harmony among the multifaith communities in Victoria. This presentation focuses on Minaret College's interfaith dialogue with Anglican, Christian, Catholic, Jewish and State schools, plus other organisations in Victoria.
Grant Watson is Chief of Staff at Scotch College, a large Presbyterian boys school in inner Melbourne, and is Current President of the Victorian Association of Religious Education. He has taught religious education for
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