A Brief Summary of the Global Ethic

February 18, 2021

This summary was prepared by Kusumita P. Pedersen and Myriam Renaud. It draws on Daniel Gómez-Ibañez,“Moving Towards a Global Ethic,” in A Sourcebook for Earth’s Community of Religions, Revised Edition, Joel D. Beversluis, ed. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: CoNexus Press and New York: Global Education Associates, 1995), 124-137, and Myriam Renaud, “The Global Ethic and the Fifth Directive,” Interreligious Insight, June 2019.


Land Acknowledgment

The Parliament of the World's Religions acknowledges it is situated on the traditional homelands of the Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi), Hoocąk (Winnebago/Ho’Chunk), Jiwere (Otoe), Nutachi (Missouria), and Baxoje (Iowas); Kiash Matchitiwuk (Menominee); Meshkwahkîha (Meskwaki); Asâkîwaki (Sauk); Myaamiaki (Miami), Waayaahtanwaki (Wea), and Peeyankihšiaki (Piankashaw); Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo); Inoka (Illini Confederacy); Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe), and Odawak (Odawa).

PoWR recognizes the region we now call Chicago remains home to a diversity of Indigenous peoples today and this land upon which we walk, live, and play continues to be Indigenous land.


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