Explorations in global ethics : comparative religious ethics and interreligious dialogue
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Explorations in global ethics : comparative religious ethics and interreligious dialogue
Westview Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors draw from both communities of discourse in addressing questions of method and theory and global moral issuessuch as human rights, distributive justice, politics of war, international business, the environment, and genocidein a cross-cultural context. }Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. Its design is premised on two important insights. First, interreligious dialogue offers to comparative religious ethics a new, more persuasive rationale, agenda of issues, and practical orientation. Second, comparative religious ethics offers to interreligious dialogue an arsenal of critical tools and methods which will enhance the sophistication of its practical work.
In this way, both theory (a dominant concern and strength of comparative religious ethics) and praxis (a dominant concern and strength of interreligious moral dialogue) are joined together in mutual effort, each contributing to the benefit of the other.The volumes contributors share this vision of collaboration, drawing explicitly from both communities of discourse in a manner that crosses disciplinary and professional boundaries to deal creatively and constructively with important methodological and global moral issue. Although theory and practice cannot easily be separated in such a collaborative project, for the purpose of clarity, the volume is divided into two main parts. The first specifically engages questions of method, theory, and the social role of the public intellectual; the second, on substantive moral themes and issues, many of which were raised at the 1993 Parliament. Taken together, the volumes essays articulate and illustrate new ways of approaching contemporary moral concerns cross-culturally yet with a rigor appropriate to our complex and pluralistic world. }
Table of Contents
Introduction: A New Venue for Comparative Religious Ethics * Comparative Religious Ethics And Interreligious Dialogue Four Paradigms in Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics (Sumner B. Twiss) Scholarship and Citizenship: Comparative Religious Ethicists as Public Intellectuals (Bruce Grelle) Reckoning with Religious Difference: Models of Interreligious Moral Dialogue (Kate McCarthy) A Global Ethic in the Light of Comparative Religious Ethics (Sallie King) Commentary on Part 1 (Marcus Braybrooke) * Religious Perspectives In Dialogue On Global Moral Issues Religion and Human Rights: A Comparative Perspective (S. B. Twiss) The Problem of Distributive Justice in World Religions (James F. Smurl) Teachers of Reality: Voices of Resistance and Reconstruction (June OConnor) Piety, Politics, and the Limits Set by God: Implications of Islamic Political Thought and Christian Theology (John Kelsay) Religions and the Ethics of International Business (Ronald M. Green) Environmental Ethics in Interreligious Perspective (Kusumita P. Pedersen) From Genocide to Global Ethics by Way of Storytelling (Darrell J. Fasching) Commentary on Part 2 (Dennis P. McCann)
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