Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World : Conflict, Dialogue, and Transformation

This book performs a study of the role of religion in a world that is simultaneously globalizing yet deeply divided. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Religion: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?....Pages 1-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Re-Envisioning Conflict, Dialogue, and Transformation: The Imperative for a New Methodological Paradigm....Pages 23-44 Surmounting the Wall: Religion and Conflict....Pages 45-65 Virtues in a Globalized Context....Pages 67-83 The People of the Book: Reconciling Religious Fundamentals with Universal Human Rights....Pages 85-101 Holding Hands and Bearing Arms: A Continuing Challenge for Global Religious Communities....Pages 103-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Relationship Building in the Middle East among Adversaries: Israelis and Palestinians....Pages 117-140 Bejeweled Dialogue: Illuminating Deadly Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 141-155 Christian Ecumenism, Other Faiths, and the “Peace of the World”....Pages 157-171 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 The Search for Communities of Peace: An International Reflection on Christian-Muslim Relations....Pages 175-190 How Muslims View the Scriptures of the People of the Book: Toward a Reassessment?....Pages 191-210 Broken Covenants and Broken Relationships: Guidelines for Cooperation in a World in Transition....Pages 211-241 Conclusion Interfaith Interaction: Contradictions and Conflicts....Pages 243-255 Back Matter....Pages 257-272 This book explores educational and cultural experiences of "part-time unveilers" during their degree programs in public institutions in Turkey. The term "part-time unveiler" is coined to refer to undergraduate female students who cover their hair in their private lives, but who remove the headscarf while at a Turkish university as a result of the higher education headscarf ban policy. The book is based on a qualitative study that involved one-on-one interviews with thirty participants. The book highlights how part-time unveilers understand and negotiate the policy, the challenges and opportunities associated with unveiling and the strategies they use in response to these, and the impact of the headscarf ban on part-time unveilers' sense of identity 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.