The progressive Jewish blog site TIKKUN DAILY has a nice article about Pagans at The Parliament of the World's Religions, and it specifically mentions COG. However, there are some problems with the characterizations of COG's direct involvement. Here is what the author - Nancy Vedder-Shults has to say:
"The Covenant of the Goddess (CoG) brought Raul Manani, an indigenous practitioner from Argentina - CoG has been especially involved in this work through their Lost and Endangered Religions Project (LERP) since the late 1990s"...(Cont.)...
I appreciate that we are being mentioned in a positive way, but the accuracy of her observations are a little less than correct. THE LOST ">"ARCHANA VENKATESAN MA, PhD is Chief Research Coordinator in LERP's South Asian division. She is a Professor at St. Lawrence University in the Religious Studies Department. She is also the main facilitator of LERP's Araiyar Sevai Conservation Project.
LAYNE LITTLE MA, PhD is the Director of LERP's South Asian division. He is a Fulbright scholar and teaches in the Humanities ">DEVESH SONEJI PhD is the Director of The Mangala Initiative and Scholar Ambassador of the Devadasi Preservation Project. He is also an Assistant Professor of South Indian Religions at McGill University, Canada.
HARI KRISHNAN MA is the artist in residence at Wesleyan University CT. He is the co-founder of the Mangala Initiative and is the Performing Arts Director of the Lost & Endangered Religions Project. "
These folks are not affiliated with COG
Also, Raul MAMANI was privately sponsored to attend the Parliament by a group of people including members of COG and the UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE.
Source: http://esoteric-soup.blogspot.com