Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic (eBook, ePUB)

In Search of a Common Morality
Redaktion: Renaud, Myriam; Schweiker, William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume tests and contests the claim that the Global Ethic's ethical directives can be found in the world's religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000261394
• Artikelnr.: 60397070

Autorenporträt

Myriam Renaud is Director and Principal Investigator of the Global Ethic Project at the Parliament of the World¿s Religions. She led the Parliament¿s effort to expand the Global Ethic with a new directive elaborating a commitment to a culture of sustainability and care for the Earth. academic research focuses on the concept of God, constructive philosophical theology, comparative theology, global ethics, and religion in the public square. She co-edited (with Joshua Daniel) and contributed to the collection of essays, God and the Moral Life (Routledge, 2018), and she is completing a monograph, Toward a Moral God and a Humanizing Theology. William Schweiker is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His scholarship focuses on theological and ethical questions related to global dynamics, comparative religious ethics, history of ethics, and hermeneutical philosophy. The author of several books, his most recent (with David Clairmont) is Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method (Wiley Blackwell, 2020). He is the editor and contributor to the three-volume Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics (forthcoming) and he is currently working on a book entitled Enhancing Life and the Forms of Freedom.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction-Myriam Renaud and William Schweiker; Prologue: Ground Rules
for Grappling with the Global Ethic-Richard B. Miller; 1 Networking as
Equals? Engaged Buddhists' Egalitarian Ideals and Hierarchical Habits-
Hsiao-Lan Hu; 2 Women's Religious Authority in Shi'i Tradition: A Quest for
Justice-Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei; 3 Gu Hongming and the Religion of Good
Citizenship: A Confucian Vision beyond Moral Universalism and Relativism-
Huaiyu Wang; 4 Avadim Hayinu: An Intersectional Jewish Perspective on the
Global Ethic of Solidarity-Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi; 5 Are There Principles
in the Hindu Tradition Consonant with "Freedom, Dignity, and Equality?-
Anantanand Rambachan; 6 Globalization, Global Ethics, and the Common Good:
Economic Justice and Protestant Prophetic Proclamation-Scott R. Paeth; 7
Sunni Islam and the Estranged Ideal: The Displaced, the Racially
Disenfranchised, and the Islamic Prophetic-Martin Nguyen; 8 Decolonizing
Religion(s) - A New, Catholic Direction for the Global Ethic-Hille Haker;
9 Tapping the Moral Wisdom of Africa's Triple Plus Heritage of Religion and
Culture-Teresia Hinga; 10 Reflections on the Relationship between Human
Rights and Global Ethics-Sumner B. Twiss; Postscript: The Global Ethic's
Fifth Directive to Care for the Earth-Myriam Renaud; Appendix: Towards a
Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration