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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.

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Introduction: Religion: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?; J.A.Camilleri PART I: EMERGING CHALLENGES FOR RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING Re-envisioning Conflict, Dialogue and Transformation: The Imperative for a New Methodological Paradigm; R.Palapathwala & A.Wicking Surmounting the Wall: Religion and Conflict; G.Maddox Virtues in a Globalised Context; N.Ormerod People of the Book: Reconciling Religious Fundamentals with Universal Human Rights; M.Kirby Holding Hands and Bearing Arms: Global Challenges for Global Religious Communities; M.Kitchen PART II: IMPLICATIONS FOR MULTI-FAITH DIALOGUE - ASSESSMENT AND CRITIQUE Relationship Building in the Middle-East Among Adversaries; D.Abramovich Bejewelled Dialogue: Illuminating Cultural Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century; C.Satha-Anand Christian Ecumenism, Other Faiths, and the ´Peace of the World´; P.Carnley PART III: TOWARD A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAM The Search for Communities of Peace: An International Reflection on Christian-Muslim Relations; J.Haire How Muslims View the Scriptures of the People of the Book: Towards a Reassessment?; A.Saeed Broken Covenants and Broken Relationships: Guidelines for Cooperation in a World in Transition; I.R.Fry Conclusion: Inter-Faith Interaction: Contradictions and Conflicts; C.Muzaffar

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LUCA ANCESCHI Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia.

JOSEPH CAMILLERI Professor at La Trobe University, Australia.

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