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Towards an ethics of community : negotiations of difference in a pluralist society /

"This collection of significant essays suggests that to truly honour differences in matters of faith and religion we must publicly exercise and celebrate them. The secular/sacred, public/private divisions--long considered sacred in the West--need to be dismantled if Canada (or any nation state)...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion
Other Authors: Olthuis, James H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion = Corp. canadienne des Sciences religeuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000.
Series:Comparative ethics series ; v. 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Plotting the margins : a historical episode in the management of social plurality / Robert Sweetman
  • Consequences of liberalism : ideological domination in Rorty's public/private split / Hendrik Hart
  • Indoctrination and assimilation in plural settings / Ken Badley
  • "Woman" in the plural : negotiating sameness and difference in feminist theory / Janet Catherina Wesselius
  • Religious conflicts, public policy, and moral authority : reflections on Christian faith and homosexual rights in a plural society / Hendrik Hart
  • Rethinking the family : belonging, respecting, and connecting / James H. Olthuis
  • Female genital mutilation : an examination of a harmful traditional practice in a Canadian context / Lisa Chisholm-Smith
  • Violent asymmetry : the shape of power in the current debate over morality of homosexuality / Ronald A. Kuipers
  • Native self-government : between the spiritual fire and the political fire / George Vandervelde
  • On identity and aesthetic voice of the culturally displaced / Calvin Seerveld.