Religion and public policy : human rights, conflict, and ethics / edited by Sumner B. Twiss, Marian Gh. Simion, and Rodney L. Petersen.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Added to CLICnet on 08/31/2015

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
A festschrift in honor of David Little.
David Little: a modern Calvinist architect of human rights / John Witte, Jr. — On reformed Christianity and natural human rights / Gene Outka — Roger Williams and freedom of conscience and religion as a natural right / Sumner B. Twiss — Islam and human rights: the religious and the secular in conversation / Abdulaziz Sachedina — On grounding human rights: variations on themes by Little / John P. Reeder, Jr. — From human rights to animal rights? / Grace Y. Kao — Nibbana, dhamma, and sinhala Buddhism: a David Little retrospective / Donald K. Swearer — The present state of the comparative study of religious ethics: an update / John Kelsay — Religion, ethics, and war: David Little and ecumenical ethics / J. Bryan Hehir — War and the right to life: Orthodox Christian perspectives / Marian Gh. Simion — Swords to ploughshares, theory to practice: an evolution of religious peacemaking at USIP / Susan Hayward — Religion and multi-track diplomacy / Rodney L. Petersen — Developing a human rights lens on religious peacemaking / Scott Appleby — Toward a polycentric approach to conflict transformation / Atalia Omer — Rethinking Islamic politics: bringing the state back in / Scott Hibbard — Religion and politics: seeking a reconciliation / Natalie Sherman & David Gergen — The core of public reason: freedom from arbitrary pain and death / Christian Rice.

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