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SUMMARY:From Faith Statements to Faith Stakeholders – The Growth of the Faith Environment Movement Worldwide | by Martin Palmer
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Special Lecture of CCHU9014 Spirituality\, Religion and Social Change\nFrom Faith Statements to Faith Stakeholders – The Growth of  the Faith Environment Movement Worldwide\nDate/Time:\nMarch 22\, 2023\, 16:30 – 18:20 (HK time)\nLanguage: English\nVenue: Knowles Building 223\, The Univerisity of Hong Kong\nRegistration is required (except for CCHU9014 students): https://bit.ly/2023March22\nABSTRACT\nThe world’s faiths run 50% of all schools; a third of all universities; more than a third of all medical facilities; own about 8% of the habitable surface of the planet; and are probably the fifth largest investing group in the world. In 1986 at the request of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh as International president of WWF\, Martin Palmer organised the first ever meeting between the world’s major faiths and the environmental movement. Nearly forty years on\, every major faith in the world has created environmental statements based on their  beliefs and teachings. Since then\, hundreds of thousands of temples\, mosques\, churches etc now run environmental projects. The UN has described the faith environment movement as  “the largest civil society environmental movement in the world.”\nBut faith groups aren’t just moral voices – they are also direct stakeholders. In 2019 The Duke of Edinburgh and Martin Palmer founded Faithinvest to work with all the major faiths on helping them be Faith-Consistent in their Investments. Four years on\, many faiths are now reviewing their investment policies and demanding better environmental and sustainable opportunities to put their teachings into practice through their assets and investments.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMartin Palmer is co-founder with HRH The late Prince Philip\, Duke of Edinburgh of the Alliance on Religions and Conservation (ARC)\, and founding President and CEO of Faithinvest. He is a Fellow of the Club of Rome and Special Advisor to many faith networks as well as to the UN and World Bank.\nMartin studied Theology\, Religious Studies and Chinese at Cambridge (1973-6) after a year as a volunteer in Hong Kong from 1972 -3 where he learnt to read Classical Chinese and speak Cantonese. Martin is a regular contributor to BBC programmes and has written over twenty books on faiths. He is one of the foremost translators of Chinese Classics\, including the Dao De Jing\, the Yijing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms\, most of these for Penguin Classics.\nHe is an active Anglican Lay Preacher and is married to the writer and former SCMP journalist Victoria Finlay.\n\nORGANIZERS\nAsian Religious Connections Research Cluster (ASIAR)\, HKIHSS\, HKU\nCenter of Buddhist Studies\, HKU\nFaith and Global Engagement\, HKIHSS\, HKU\nThe New Mindscape (CCHU9014 Spirituality\, Religion and Social Change | HKU Common Core)\n			\n				Register Today
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/from-faith-statements-to-faith-stakeholders-the-growth-of-the-faith-environment-movement-worldwide-by-martin-palmer/
LOCATION:Knowles Building 223\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:The New Mindscape
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SUMMARY:The Belt and Road Initiative and Spirit Mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and Sacred Space in Northeastern Cambodia
DESCRIPTION:The Belt and Road Initiative and Spirit Mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and Sacred Space in Northeastern Cambodia\nABSTRACTThe Lower Sesan 2 Dam (LS2) is the largest and most controversial hydropower dam ever developed in Cambodia. The 400 MW capacity project\, which blocks both the Sesan and Srepok Rivers in Stung Treng Province\, northeastern Cambodia\, was only completed by a Chinese company\, Hydrolancang International Energy Company\, in 2018\, as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Here\, I consider the relationship between LS2 and sacred spaces of rural ethnic Lao people\, including how spirit mediums and the associated belief systems of local people have been impacted by LS2. Female spirit mediums have contested the LS2 since before its construction began\, and have also been directly affected by the dam. Adopting a feminist political approach\, the argument is that apart from having potentially important material impacts\, dams such as LS2 also serve to alter nature-society relations through variously affecting spirit mediums\, their practices\, and beliefs associated with spirits.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERDr. Ian G. Baird is a Professor of Geography and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most of work relates to political ecology and Laos\, Cambodia and Thailand. His most recent book is Rise of the Brao: Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2020).\nORGANIZER\nOrganizer: ASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\, under the CRF Project “Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road [BRINFAITH]” (RGC CRF HKU C7052-18G)
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/the-belt-and-road-initiative-and-spirit-mediums-the-lower-sesan-2-dam-and-sacred-space-in-northeastern-cambodia/
LOCATION:Via Zoom (Registration required)
CATEGORIES:BRINFAITH
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