Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic In Search of a Common Morality

• Main Authors: Renaud, Myriam, Schweiker, William
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
• Subjects: African; Applied Religious Ethics; beliefs; Buddhism; caste system; Catholicism; Chinese & Japanese Religions; Christianity; Confucianism; Cultural tradition; Displaced peoples; ethical; Ethics, Comparative; Global Ethic; Global Ethic's directives; Globalization; Hinduism; immigration; India's caste system; Indigenous; Interreligious; Islam; Islam - Religion; Jainism; Judaism; legal; Moral Theory; Morality; Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic; Myriam Renaud; Parliament of the World’s Religions; Philosophy of Religion; Protestantism; Religion; Religion and ethics; Religion and Philosophy; Religious; Religious Ethics; rituals; Shi‘I; Sikhism; sunni Islam; Taoism; Theology; Empathetic Openness; Good Life; Human Suffering; Engaged Buddhists; Soul Expansion; Sallie King; Gu Hongming; Muslim Women's Struggles; Eth Ic; Dynamic Jurisprudence; Advance Gender Justice; Global Ethic Project; Fourth Directives; Achieving Gender Justice; Concerned African Women Theologians; Comparative Religious Ethics; Anantanand Rambachan; Female Religious Authorities; Global Ethical Framework; Global Ethic; Universal Human Morality; Dharma Heirs; Gender Justice; Fundamental Moral Attitudes; Prophetic Critique
• ISBN: 0367819953; 9780367819958; 9780367640026; 0367640023
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003011279

Ratified by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993 and expanded in 2018, "Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration)," or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of principles shared by people-religious or not. Though it is a secular document, the Global Ethic emerged after months of collaborative, interreligious dialogue dedicated to identifying a common ethical framework. 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. The book features essays by scholars of religion who grapple with the practical implications of the Global Ethic's directives when applied to issues like women's rights, displaced peoples, income and wealth inequality, India's caste system, and more. The scholars explore their respective religious traditions' ethical response to one or more of these issues and compares them to the ethical response elaborated by the Global Ethic. The traditions included are Hinduism, Engaged Buddhism, Shi'i Islam, Sunni Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Indigenous African Religions, and Human Rights. To highlight the complexities within traditions, most essays are followed by a brief response by an expert in the same tradition. Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic is of special interest to advanced students and scholars whose work focuses on the religious traditions listed above, on comparative religion, religious ethics, comparative ethics, and common morality.