Religion and public policy : human rights, conflict, and ethics / edited by Sumner B. Twiss, Marian Gh. Simion, Rodney L. Petersen.
This book pivots around two principal concerns in the modern world: the nature and practice of human rights in relation to religion, and the role of religion in perennial issues of war and peace. It articulates a vision for achieving a liberal peace and a just society firmly grounded in respect for...
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Table of Contents:
- David Little: a modern Calvinist architect of human rights / John Witte, Jr.
- On reformed Christianity and natural human rights / Gene Outka
- Roger Williams and freedom of conscience and religion as a natural right / Sumner B. Twiss
- Islam and human rights: the religious and the secular in conversation / Abdulaziz Sachedina
- On grounding human rights: variations on themes by Little / John P. Reeder, Jr.
- From human rights to animal rights? / Grace Yia-Hei Kao
- Nibbana, dhamma, and sinhala Buddhism: a David Little retrospective / Donald K. Swearer
- The present state of the comparative study of religious ethics: an update / John Kelsay
- Religion, ethics, and war: David Little and ecumenical ethics / J. Bryan Hehir
- War and the right to life: Orthodox Christian perspectives / Marian Gh. Simion
- Swords to ploughshares, theory to practice: an evolution of religious peacemaking at USIP / Susan Hayward
- Religion and multi-track diplomacy / Rodney L. Petersen
- Developing a human rights lens on religious peacemaking / Scott Appleby
- Toward a polycentric approach to conflict transformation / Atalia Omer
- Rethinking Islamic politics: bringing the state back in / Scott Hibbard
- Religion and politics: seeking a reconciliation / Natalie Sherman & David Gergen
- The core of public reason: freedom from arbitrary pain and death / Christian Rice.