Religion and ethics in a globalizing world
Subtitle: conflict, dialogue, and transformation
By: edited by Luca Anceschi ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230104624
Subjects: Religion and politics; Religious aspects; Globalization; Religious ethics
Description: Around the world religion is an increasingly vital and pervasive force in both personal and public life. Though this trend has been widely noted, its long-term implications are as yet only dimly perceived. Will this be a force for healing or for violence? To express the question to its most dramatic, yet urgent form: can the world's major religious traditions respond constructively to contemporary challenges in the public sphere that are now, by definition, global? Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World seeks to address this question, and to contribute to a greater understanding of the role of religion in the paradoxical context of a world that is increasingly unified, but which remains fundamentally plural.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- pt. I; title: Emerging Challenges for Religious Understanding -- -- 1.; title: Re-envisioning Conflict, Dialogue, and Transformation: The Imperative for a New Methodological Paradigm  -- Andrew Wicking -- 2.; title: Surmounting the Wall: Religion and Conflict  -- Graham Maddox -- 3.; title: Virtues in a Globalized Context  -- Neil Ormerod -- 4.; title: The People of the Book: Reconciling Religious Fundamentals with Universal Human Rights  -- Michael Kirby -- 5.; title: Holding Hands and Bearing Arms: A Continuing Challenge for Global Religious Communities  -- Merrill Kitchen -- pt. II; title: Implications for Multifaith Dialogue-Assessment and Critique -- -- 6.; title: Relationship Building in the Middle East among Adversaries: Israelis and Palestinians  -- Dvir Abramovich -- 7.; title: Bejeweled Dialogue: Illuminating Deadly Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century  -- Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- 8.; title: Christian Ecumenism, Other Faiths, and the "Peace of the World"  -- Peter Carnley -- pt. III; title: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Islam -- -- 9.; title: The Search for Communities of Peace: An International Reflection on Christian-Muslim Relations  -- James Haire -- 10.; title: How Muslims View the Scriptures of the People of the Book: Toward a Reassessment?  -- Abdullah Saeed -- 11.; title: Broken Covenants and Broken Relationships: Guidelines for Cooperation in a World in Transition -- Ian R. Fry.