WOMEN OF 1893 PARLIAMENT
Pioneering Interfaith Leaders Before Their Time
Rev. Allison Stokes, Ph.D. Ambassador for the Parliament of World Religions and Founding Director of the Women’s Interfaith Institute of the Finger Lakes plans to publish a book celebrating the prominent women's voices in the history of interfaith and the Parliament of the World's Religions. Stokes will share these stories at the Living Out The Vision program and dinner benefit of the 20th/120th anniversaries of the Parliament, November 16, in Chicago, IL. This article is an excerpt of this body of work, and the second installation of the Parliament Anniversary Series.
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Julia Ward Howe
"What is, and What is Not, Religion?"
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Fannie Barrier Williams
"The Religious Mission of the Colored Race"
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Celia Parker Woolley
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"The World's Religious Debt to America"
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott created the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that 68 women and 32 men signed at the first women’s rights convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY, they had specific things to say about “the usurpations on the part of man toward woman” when it came to the subject of religion. Among their grievances: “ He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction, which he considers most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known….” Furthermore, “ He allows her in Church, as well as State, but a subordinate position, claiming Apostolic authority for her exclusion from the ministry, and, with some exceptions, from any public participation in the affairs of the Church…” Read more...
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Leader of Arizona Interfaith Elected to the Parliament Board
 The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Paul Eppinger to the Parliament board. Eppinger brings a wealth of experience promoting interfaith dialogue by new and exciting means to the Parliament as the current Executive Director of the Arizona Interfaith Movement and until recently, serving as a member of the Parliament's Read more... |
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Muslim Women Set Precedent for Religious Freedom
 Religious accommodation in the workplace seems to be gaining strength in recent times. Last month, corporate America received a huge setback as retail giant Abercrombie and Fitch was found by a federal judge to have discriminated against a Muslim clerk who wore a hijab to work and was subsequently fired. While that story took the nation, especially American Muslim circles by storm, I refrained from writing about it for the simple reason that there didn’t seem much else Read more... |
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European Union Raises Hate Crime Awareness in October
Samhain- a Pagan Honoring of the Ancestors, and Death
Ancient faith was influenced by the natural world. Originating in ancient Europe as a Celtic Fire festival, the Pagan holiday of Samhain, marks the end of the harvest season, heralds the beginning of winter; the dark half of the year, and honors death. Samhain, (pronounced SAH-win, or SOW-in) is also the Gaelic name for the month of November, the literal translation being, ‘summer’s end’. Being largely a pastoral people, the Celts observed the season of Samhain as the time when the earth was dying. Read more...
Register Now for Louisville November Festival of Faiths
 The Center for Interfaith Relations, in partnership with the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and Bellarmine University, presents the 2013 Festival of Faiths Fall Forums, November 14-15 in Louisville, Kentucky. In keeping with the theme of the May 2013 Festival of Faiths, Sacred Silence: Pathway to Compassion, Fall Forum presentations will focus on compassion and common action that communities of many faiths can embrace. Specific issues will touch on urban ministries, wealth disparity and environmental sustainability. Opening the forums is the session, "Greed as Violence: The Role of the Global Church in Addressing the Enduring Spiritual Crisis of our Time" presented by Parliament Trustee the Rev. Dr. Shanta Premawardhana, who is president of Chicago-based Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education. Read more...
Honoring Jain Delegate to 1893 Parliament
 For the 1893’s Parliament of World Religions, originally the most acclaimed Jain Priest, Muni Atmaramji, was invited to represent Jainism. His photo and details were printed in Rev. John. H. Barrows official book (Page 21& 56). When it became evident Rev. Muni Atmaramji could not attend, his disciple, Lawyer Virchand Raghavji Gandhi, was deputed to represent Jainism. As a Jain delegate, Virchand Gandhi captivated the 1893’s Parliament of World Religions. Read more... |
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