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Horrible religious violence has marked the opening of the 21st century, but can the world's religions work together as a force for good? Dozens of experts in religion examine the meaning of religion in the aftermath of September 11 and answer this question.

Table of Contents

Volume 1, Religion, War, and Peace Introduction by Arvind Sharma The Violent Bear It Away: Christian Reflections on Just War by William R. ONeill Turning War Inside Out: New Perspectives for the Nuclear Age by Marcia Sichol Demonic Religion and Violence by Lloyd Steffen Bhagavadgt and War: Some Early Anticipations of the Gandhian Interpretation of the Bhagavadgt by Arvind Sharma Just- War Theory in South Asia: Indic Success, Sri Lankan Failure? by Katherine K. Young Religion and Terror: A Post-9/11 Analysis by Stephen Healey The Approach of Muslim Turkish People to Religious Terror by Ramazan Bicer Is It Relevant to Talk about Democracy in Lebanon in the Aftermath of the Summer 2006 Conflictsmbats? by Pamela Chrabieh 9/11 and Korean-American Youth: A Study on Two Opposing Forces by Heerak Christian Kim Sacrificing the Paschal Lamb: A Road Toward Peace by Jean Donovan Seeking the Peace of the Global City of Knowledge of God after 9/11 by Aaron Gaius The Golden Rule and World Peace by Patricia A. Keefe World Religions and World Peace: Toward a New Partnership by Brian D. Lepard Volume 2, Religion and Human Rights The Current State of the Individual: A Meditation on The Falling Man byMaurice Boutin Lockes Inheritors: The Dilemma of Religious Toleration by Matt Sheedy Religion and an Implicit Fundamental Human Right by James Kellenberger Religion and Human Rights: A Historical and Contemporary Assessment by Krishna Kanth Tigiripalli and Lalitha Kumari Kadarla Achieving Religious Harmony by Rhoda Asikia Ige The Grammar of Dissent: Religion, Rights, and Public Reason by William R. ONeill Divine Rights: Toward a New Synthesis of Human Rights and World Religions by Brian D. Lepard Universality of Moral Norms: A Human Rights Perspective by Kusumita P. Pedersen Is the Notion of Human Rights a Western Concept? by Raimundo Panikkar What Gives a Person Worth? A Zoroastrian View by Nikan H. Khatibi Women and Human Rights by Abha Singh Catholicism and the AIDS Pandemic by Xavier Gravend-Tirole Religion, Violence, and Human Rights: A Hindu Perspective by Arvind Sharma Confucian Contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective by Sumner B. Twiss Religious Freedom, the Right to Proselytize, and the Right To Be Let Alone by Kusumita P. Pedersen The Rationale for a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Worlds Religions: Before and after September 11, 2001 by Arvind Sharma A Bah Perspective on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Worlds Religions after September 11, 2001 by Brian D. Lepard Appendix 1 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Appendix 2 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Worlds Religions Appendix 3 A Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Hindus Appendix 4 Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights Appendix 5 The Dhaka Declaration on Human Rights in Islam Appendix 6 The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam Appendix 7 Arab Charter on Human Rights Appendix 8 Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities Appendix 9 A Global Ethic: The Universal Declaration of the Parliament of the Worlds Religions Volume 3, The Interfaith Dimension Introduction by Arvind Sharma Master Hsin Taos Vision: The Museum of World Religions by Maria Reis Habito Movement and Institution: Necessary Elements of Sustaining the Interfaith Vision by David A. Leslie Pluralism as a Way of Dealing with Religious Diversity by Caitlin Crowley Promotion of Inter-religious Dialogue by Mihai Valentin Vladimirescu Re-defining Humanity and Civilization by Nadine Sultana dOsman Han Along a Path Less Travelled: A Plurality of Religious Ultimates? by Arvind Sharma The Great Chain of Pluralism: Religious Diversity According to John Hick and the Perennial Philosophy by Andrew Noel Blakeslee Religious Maya by Patricia Reynaud The Concept of Peace and Security in Islam by Muhammad Hammad Lakhvi Inter-religious Dialogue Attentive to Western Enlightenment by Gregory Baum Lessons from Hinduism for the World after 9/11 by Ashok Vohra Orientalist Feminism and Islamophobia/Iranophobia by Roksana Bahramitash Women's Interfaith Initiatives in the United States Post-9/11 by Kathryn Lohre John Paul II and Benedict XVI on the Jewish Tradition by Harold Kasimow Peace Education: Building on Zarathushtrian Principles by Farishta Murzban Dinshaw Protestantism and Candombl in Bahia: From Intolerance to Dialogue (and Beyond) by Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. and Devaka Premawardhana An Analytical Inquiry into Islamic and Western Meth

About the Author

Arvind Sharma has been a member of the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University since 1987. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He is the author of Are Human Rights Western? (2006) and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology (2005).

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A requirement for all libraries and for anyone interested in and examining the multiple relationships between religions and the political.
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