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
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
participants at the Parliament with those at the conference in Copenhagen, our 'Heal the Earth Sanctuary will clearly express our support for sustainable living and our commitment to a better world.
Leslie Meehan is an interspiritual minister and co-founder of the Gaiafield Center for Subtle Activism at the California Institute of Integral Studies [CIIS) in San Francisco, California, USA. She received her MSEE from Stanford University and is a PhD candidate at CIIS finishing her dissertation, Our Birth as Halo Sapiens: Navigating our Passage Through Climate Change. She is committed to helping to create a world where the great-great-grandchildren of all species can thrive.
Catholic Mass, Coptic Rite
Fr Matta Ayoub
Room 215
Religious or Spiritual Observance
In this observance the Eucharist will be celebrated in the Coptic rite. Coptic Catholics belong to a small Eastern Catholic Church with its headquarters in Cairo. They are led by the Catholic Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria. The ceremony will be explained for those not acquainted with a Coptic Mass and will also be supplemented by an explanation concerning the Catholic Copts.
The celebrant will be Fr Matta Ayoub, who is the Melbourne migrant chaplain for the Coptic Catholic community.
Contemplative Shacharit (Jewish Morning) Service
Rabbi Or N Rose
Room 216
Religious or Spiritual Observance
Using the traditional rubrics of the weekday Shacharit ('morning') service, participants will explore several key prayers through song, chant, and guided meditation. Our service will include Hebrew and English. Translations and transliterations will be provided. All are welcome.
Rabbi Or N Rose is an associate dean at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Boston, Massachusetts, and co-director of the Center for Interreligious & Communal Leadership Education (CIRCLE), a joint venture of Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School. Rabbi Rose is the author or editor of three books and numerous articles on Jewish spirituality, interfaith cooperation, and social justice. He was recently selected as a member of the inaugural Shalom Hartman Institute North American Scholar's Circle.
Observance on Tlinglit (Indigenous
Alaskan Native) Spirituality
Clarence Jackson, USA: Tlingit
Room 217
Religious or Spiritual Observance
The Tlingit culture is multifaceted and complex. In Tlingit culture, a heavy emphasis is placed upon family and kinship. Art and spirituality are incorporated in nearly all areas of Tlingit culture. A Tlingit Clan Elder from the village
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Jain Education Intemational
8:00-9:00am MORNING OBSERVANCES
of Kake in Southeast Alaska, Mr Clarence Jackson will offer a Tlingit observance. He is a fluent Tlingit speaker who frequently assists in efforts to document the Tlingit language and oral histories. Historically, Tlingit thought and beliefs were a fairly well organised philosophical and religious system whose basic axioms shaped the way Tlingit people viewed and interacted with the world around them.
Clarence Jackson is a Tlingit Clan Elder from the village of Kake. Alaska. He is of the Ch'aak [Eagle) moiety. Tsaagweidi (Killer Whale] Clan. He is on the board of directors for Sealaska Corporation, a regional, Native for-profit corporation founded by the US Congress for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people. He also serves on the board of trustees for Sealaska Heritage Institute and its Council of Traditional Scholars.
Melbourne Buddhist Leaders
Observance
Ven Thich Phuoc Tan
Other Melbourne Buddhist Sangha Room 218
Religious or Spiritual Observance
This Buddhist observance will involve some of the most senior ordained and lay leaders of Melbourne's Buddhist temples and centres. Convened by the Melbourne Parliament of the World's Religions patron Ven Thich Phuoc Tan, this observance will begin with chanting from the three main streams of Buddhism and will conclude with guided meditation.
Ven Thich Phuoc Tan is the Abbot of Quang Minh Buddhist Temple in Braybrook.
A Qur'anic Moral Imperative: Building Peace in the Pursuit of Justice
Dr Tariq Ramadan
Room 220
Religious or Spiritual Observance
In this session, Tariq Ramadan, a renowned Islamic scholar and President of the European Muslim Network, will discuss the Qur'anic approach to the moral imperative of building peace in pursuit of justice. This session is one of six in a series of Muslim observances on the Qur'an scheduled across the six days of the Parliament. Each session will include inspirational recitations of the Qur'an, clear translation, and illuminating exegesis around a different Parliament subtheme each day. This series will show how the subthemes of the Melbourne Parliament are all issues of shared concern to Muslims, as they are at the heart of Islam's social conscience.
Tariq Ramadan (www.tariqramadan.com) is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He is active both at the academic and grassroots levels and lectures extensively throughout the world on theology, ethics, social justice, ecology and interfaith as well as intercultural dialogue. Through his writings and lectures, he has contributed substantially to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. Professor Ramadan is currently president of the European think tank, European Muslim Network (EMN). in Brussels.