Dissent on Core Beliefs: Religious and Secular Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107499135 ISBN 13: 9781107499133

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

This study compares the ways in which nine different ethical and religious traditions manage dissent on core beliefs, and is of interest to upper-level students, graduate students and researchers in theological ethics, religious studies, comparative ethics, political theory and philosophy of religion.

About the Author:

Simone Chambers is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. She has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 2002, and her primary areas of scholarship include democratic theory, ethics, secularism, rhetoric, civility and the public sphere. She has published articles in journals including Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Ethics and Global Politics, and Critical Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107499135
• ISBN 13: 9781107499133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Chambers Simone, Nosco Peter