Value and vulnerability : an interfaith dialogue on human dignity / edited by Matthew R. Petrusek, and Jonathan Rothchild.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petrusek, Matthew R., editor.

Rothchild, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Respect for persons.

Dignity--Religious aspects.

Dignity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 500 pages)

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]

Summary:

Value and Vulnerability brings together scholars of many religions--including Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Islam, and Humanism--to identify and examine conceptions and interpretations of dignity within different religious and philosophical perspectives and their applications to contemporary issues of conflict, such as gendered, religious, and racial violence, immigration, ecology, and religious peacemaking. Value and Vulnerability also includes response chapters that clarify and refine these interpretations from interfaith perspectives. Through this volume, Matthew R. Petrusek and Jonathan Rothchild offer recommendations for advancing the conversation about dignity within and among traditions and for addressing urgent global issues and threats to dignity. Together, Petrusek, Rothchild, and the contributors create a comparative framework constituted by seven questions: What sources justify dignity's existence, nature, and purpose? What is the relationship between the divine and human dignity? What is the relationship between dignity and the human body? Is dignity vulnerable or invulnerable to moral harm? Is dignity inherent or attained? Is dignity universal and equal? Is dignity practical? Through its systematic, comparative, interdisciplinary, and practical dimensions, Value and Vulnerability fills in the gaps in contemporary theological, philosophical, and ethical discourses on dignity. -- publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Matthew R. Petrusket and Jonathan Rothchild

Part I Traditions

1 Dignity: A Catholic Perspective / Darlene Fozard Weaver

2 Dignity: A Buddhist Perspective / Kristin Scheible

3 Catholic and Buddhist Perspectives on Dignity: A Response / Karen B. Enriquez

4 Dignity: A Jewish Perspective / Elliot N Dorff and Daniel Nevins

5 Dignity: A Hindu Perspective / Christopher Key Chapple

6 Jewish and Hindu Perspectives on Dignity: Responses / Christopher Key Chapple and Elliot N Dorff

7 Dignity: A Protestant Perspective / David P Gushee

8 Dignity: An Orthodox Perspective

9 Protestant and Orthodox Perspectives on Dignity: A Response / Matthew R Petrusek

10 Dignity: An Islamic Perspective / Zeki Saritoprak

11 Dignity: A Humanist Perspective / William Schweiker

12 Islamic and Humanist Perspectives on Dignity: A Response / Jonathan Rothchild

Part II Case Studies

13 Dignity and Conflict: Gendered Violence / Hille Haker

14 Dignity and Conflict: Religious Violence / Nicholas Denysenko

15 Dignity and Conflict: Racial Violence / Terrence L Johnson

16 Dignity and Conflict: Criminal Justice / William O'Neill

17 Dignity and Conflict: Immigration / Victor Carmona

18 Dignity and Conflict: Ecology / Dawn m Nothwehr

19 Dignity and Conflict: Religious Peacebuilding / Ellen Ott Marshall

Afterword / Matthew R Perusek and Jonathan Rothchild.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268106676

0268106673

9780268106683

0268106681

OCLC:

1196199689