The dialogue of cultural traditions
Subtitle: global perspective
By: edited by William Sweet ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sweet, William.
Series: Cultural heritage and contemporary change.  Series I,  Culture and values -- v. 39
Publisher: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9781565182585
Subjects: Community life -- Case studies; Social structure -- Case studies; Communities -- Case studies; Culture; Globalization
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Persons and community; title: Persons, rights, and duties; title: Person and community : rights and duties : introductory remarks / M.S. Sujimon; title: The person as individual and social being / Rolando M. Gripaldo; title: On the meaning of human being in the world : the social dimension / Kazhimurat Abishev; title: Human rights : an Islamic approach / Mustafa Koylu; title: Human dignity and human rights : an apprisal from the viewpoint of present-day Indian Islam / Sirajul Islam; title: Group-specific rights : a non-essentialist approach / Plamen Makariev; title: Part II: Communities, cultural foundations, and civil society; title: Cultural foundations for person and community : a view from the center / Olivia Blanchette; title: Pluralistic culture and open society / Tran Van Doan; title: Ethnicity and globalization / Francis Gikonyo Wokabi and Stephen Omondi Owino; title: Between two discursive ethical practices : the Ukraine on the road to civil society / Anatolij Karas; title: On the intimate relation between social fact and three types of values / Gong Qun; title: Human studies in Vietnam at the beginning of the 21st century / Ho Si Quy; title: Ethnic diversity or cultural clash in the press of Saint Petersburg / S. Vinogradova and T. Shaldenkova; title: The mysticism of Asia in the philosophical mirror of Asia / Ho Si Quy; title: Persons and communities : an afterword / William Sweet.