Dissent on core beliefs : religious and secular perspectives / edited by Simone Chambers, University of Toronto, Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chambers, Simone, editor.

Series:

The Ethikon series in comparative ethics Dissent on core beliefs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions.

Conflict management--Religious aspects.

Conflict management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Difference, diversity and disagreement are inevitable features of our ethical, social and political landscape. This collection of new essays investigates the ways that various ethical and religious traditions have dealt with intramural dissent; the volume covers nine separate traditions: Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, liberalism, Marxism, South Asian religions and natural law. Each chapter lays out the distinctive features, history and challenges of intramural dissent within each tradition, enabling readers to identify similarities and differences between traditions. The book concludes with an Afterword by Michael Walzer, offering a synoptic overview of the challenge of intramural dissent and the responses to that challenge. Committed to dialogue across cultures and traditions, the collection begins that dialogue with the common challenges facing all traditions: how to maintain cohesion and core values in the face of pluralism, and how to do this in a way that is consistent with the internal ethical principles of the traditions.

Contents:

Introduction / Simone Chambers and Peter Nosco

Liberalism and internal dissent / William A. Galston

Intramural dissent: Marxism / Andrew Levine

Dissent on core beliefs in natural law / Tom Angier

The management of intramural dissent in Judaism / Alan Mittleman

Christianity and the management of intramural dissent / Peter Steinfels

Intramural dissent on core beliefs in Islam / Meena Sharify-Funk

Dissent and diversity in South Asian religions / Anne Murphy

Confucianism and dissent on core beliefs / Richard Madsen

Intramural dissent in Buddhism / Peter Nosco

Afterword / Michael Walzer.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-316-29028-X

1-316-32429-X

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1-316-33097-4

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