Dissent on Core Beliefs
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 05 May 2015
- 23 April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781316181997
- 9781107101524
- 9781107499133
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.49kg, 254 Pages
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- (229 x 152 mm)
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- 0.39kg, 256 Pages
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Book description
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.
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References
Selected bibliography
Liberalism
Berlin, Isaiah, “Two Concepts of Liberty,” in Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969).
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Paul, Ellen Frankel, Miller, Fred D., and Paul, Jeffrey (eds.), Liberalism Old and New (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Raz, John, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
Marxism
Elster, Jon, An Introduction to Karl Marx (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Levine, Andrew, A Future for Marxism? Althusser, the Analytic Turn and the Revival of Socialist Theory (London: Pluto Press, 2003).
Lukes, Steven, Marxism and Morality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
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Natural law
Laing, Jacqueline A. and Wilcox, Russell (eds.), The Natural Law Reader (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Oderberg, David S. and Chappell, Timothy (eds.), Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Keown, John and George, Robert P. (eds.), Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Bamforth, Nicholas and Richards, David A. J., Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Wolfe, Christopher, Natural Law Liberalism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Judaism
Batnitzky, Leora, How Judaism Became a Religion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).
Frank, Daniel and Goldish, Matt (eds.), Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2008).
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Walzer, Michael, Lorberbaum, Menachem, and Zohar, Noam J. (eds.), The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. ii (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003).
Christianity
Hastings, Adrian, Mason, Alistair, and Pyper, Hugh (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
McBrien, Richard P. (ed.), The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995).
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).
Smith, Jonathan Z. (ed., with the American Academy of Religion), The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religions (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995).
Wilken, Robert Louis, The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012).
Islam
Arkoun, Mohammad, The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought (London: Saqi Books, 2002).
Mandaville, Peter, Global Political Islam (New York: Routledge, 2007).
Masud, Muhammad Khalid, Salvatore, Armando, and Bruinessen, Martin van (eds.), Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
Pew Research Center: the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity. August 9, 2012. Available online www.pewforum.org/2012/08/09/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary/ (accessed August 27, 2012).
Pew Research Center, The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010–2030. January 29, 2011. Available online www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ (accessed on August 27, 2012).
South Asian religions
Doniger, Wendy, “The Origins of Heresy in Hindu Mythology,” History of Religions 10, 4 (May 1971): 271–333.
Mandair, Arvind-pal Singh, Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).
Parekh, Bhikhu, “Some Reflections on the Hindu Theory of Tolerance,” Seminar 521 (January 2003): 48–53.
Pennington, Brian, Was Hinduism Invented? Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Ram, Ronki, “Beyond Conversion and Sanskritisation: Articulating an Alternative Dalit Agenda in East Punjab,” Modern Asian Studies 46, 3 (2011): 639–702.
Confucianism
Chen, Yong, Confucianism as Religion: Controversies and Consequences (Leiden: Brill, 2013).
de Bary, Theodore, Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Sun, Anna, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).
Weiming, Tu, The Global Significance of Concrete Humanity: Essays on the Confucian Discourse in Contemporary China (New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilization, 2010).
Yang, Fenggang and Tamney, Joseph (eds.), Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
Buddhism
Batchelor, Stephen, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening (New York: Riverhead Books, 1997).
Cole, Alan, “Schisms in Buddhism,” in Lewis, James R. and Lewis, Sarah M. (eds.), Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 61–82.
Jerryson, Michael and Juergensmeyer, Mark, Buddhist Warfare (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Lopez, Donald S. Jr., The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History & Teachings (New York: Harper Collins 2001).
Silk, Jonathan A., Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009).
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