Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World by Luca Anceschi; Joseph Anthony Camilleri (Editor); Ruwan Palapathwala (Editor); Andrew Wicking (Editor)ISBN: 9780230117686
Publication Date: 2011-02-14
Around the world religion is an increasingly vital and pervasive force in both personal and public life. Though this trend has been widely noted, its long-term implications are as yet only dimly perceived. Will this be a force for healing or for violence? To express the question to its most dramatic, yet urgent form: can the world's major religious traditions respond constructively to contemporary challenges in the public sphere that are now, by definition, global? Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World seeks to address this question, and to contribute to a greater understanding of the role of religion in the paradoxical context of a world that is increasingly unified, but which remains fundamentally plural.