Human Rights and Religion: A Reader by
This book examines the complex relationship between religion and human rights.
Religion and Public Policy: Human Rights, Conflict, and Ethics by
Articulates a vision for achieving a liberal peace and a just society firmly grounded in respect for human rights, while working in tandem with the constructive roles that religion can play even amid cultural difference.
Basic Documents on Human Rights by
Provides an extensive collection of key documents and covering all elements of the subject, e.g. the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, accompanied by authoritative commentary and annotation.
Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions by
Outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions.
Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church by
Presents a constructive dialogue between people who disagree on homosexuality, and yet maintain a respectful and humanizing posture toward one another.
Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture by
What are the most important texts for modern Christians to read in order to arrive at responsible decisions regarding the ethics of human sexual behavior? How should those texts be translated for today's reader? How should the Bible be used in this enterprise? Contributors to this book, all notable biblical scholars, confront these questions as they deal with issues surrounding the ethics of sexual behavior.
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (Online) by
Tackles the "taboo" subject of sexuality that has long been avoided by the Black church and community. Douglas argues that this view of Black sexuality has interfered with constructive responses to sexual issues.
Gender and Christian Ethics by
A take on Christian ethics that goes beyond gendered theologies in past Christian theologies.
Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics by
Explores how Christian ideas, practices, and institutions can contribute to today's struggle for racial justice and how those ideas, practices, and institutions need to be reimagined in light of the challenges to white supremacy posed by today's movements for racial justice.
Comparative Just War Theory: An Introduction to International Perspectives by
Considers just war theory alongside concepts of Confucian Yi/Rightness, Ahimsa, feminism, class struggles, Ubuntu, anarchism, pacifism, Buddhism, Islam, Jihad, among others.
The Justice of War: Its Foundations in Ethics and Natural Law by
Puts normative ethical theory at the forefront in its discussion of the justice of war. Situating the modern theory of just war in its historical context, Richard A. S. Hall gives full attention to natural law, a mainstay of just war theory.
Ethics and War: An Introduction by
Presents the basic principles of just war theory, showing how they evolved historically and how they are applied today in global relations.
Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence by
In a world riven with conflict, violence and war, this book proposes a philosophical defense of pacifism. It argues that there is a moral presumption against war and unless that presumption is defeated, war is unjustified.
A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic by
Shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what kind of community the church must be to rightly tell the stories of God. Challenges the dominant assumption of contemporary Christian social ethics that there is a special relation between Christianity and some form of liberal democratic social system.
Christian Social Ethics by
This book considers the relationship between Christian and general ethics in postmodernism.
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