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About Me

Teacher, presenter, educator, facilitator, pastor, counselor - Netherlands and USA.

Location:
Netherlands, Rotterdam
Current organization:
De Lage Waard, Papendrecht
Past organizations:
The Climate Project, Platform Levensbeschouwing & Religie Rotterdam, Interim Migrant Services
Current role:
Educator
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Theology & Ethics, History of human thought, Language and Cognition
Associations:
Free Press, New Jersey Civil Rights Association
Languages:
English, Dutch, German
My website links:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mraltena, http://www.facebook.com/interimmigrantservices
Universities:
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Hogeschool Ede, Hogeschool Windesheim Zwolle
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I'm passionate about

Societies, cultures, and how people attempt to live alongside, besides, or among one another. Value systems, religious beliefs and how that translates into human relationships and relating to "other."

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Religion, Philosophy, Politics, Human, Physical and Virtual Environments.

People don't know that I'm good at

Presenting, language, music

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    A reply on Talk: Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual

    Oct 31 2010: The question you ask is completely besides the point. What is addressed here seems to point at how one's cultural values contain truth, particularly without modernity or non-traditional cultures imposing values upon these expressions of truth. This doesn't deny the truth about how knowing about germs saves from disease either, but asking this type of question imposes another cultures values upon the ones discussed here. And that's why we call it anthropology, not commentary.

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