Religious ethics Books

Book SynopsisWonchul Shin is Catherine of Siena Teaching Scholar in the ethics program at Villanova University.

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Book SynopsisCarol J. Dempsey, OP, is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies (Biblical Studies) at the University of Portland. Norah A. Martin is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Portland.

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach toward perspectives on the everyday and the sacred are the hallmark of this volume. Looking beyond the dualistic status-quo, the authors probe the categories, textures, powers, and practices that define how we experience, embody, and understand religion and the sacred, their interconnection, but also disassociation with the secular. Contributions by an international group of feminist theologians and religious studies scholars aim to re-configure the study of both religion and gender: Angela Berlis, Anne-Marie Korte, Kune Biezeveld , Helga Kuhlmann, Maaike de Haardt, Akke van der Kooi, Dorothea Erbele-Kuster, Willien van Wieringen, Magda Misset-van de Weg, Ge Speelman, Mathilde van Dijk, Jacqueline Borsje, Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes, Goedroen Juchtmans, Alma Lanser and Riet Bons-Storm.Trade Review"[T]he volume is abundant and rich in the variety of disciplines, methods, religions, contexts, and approaches it engages and contributes to. Especially notable here is the spectrum of theological scholarship it engages. (...) While there remain still more avenues to be opened and explored, Everyday Life and the Sacred travels down paths previously unexplored, discovering and traversing untrodden intersections, and is thus a rich and helpful addition to scholars and students." - Brandy Daniels, University of Virginia, in: Reading Religion, June 26, 2018 (link visited on September 10, 2019)Table of ContentsThe Genesis of This Book and Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Everyday Life and the Sacred: Gender Sensitive Explorations—Introduction  Angela Berlis and Anne-Marie Korte Part 1: Categories 2 God in Everyday Life  Kune Biezeveld† 3 The Hope to Become Holy: Bringing Holiness and Everyday Life Together  Helga Kuhlmann 4 A Momentary Sacred Space: Religion, Gender and the Sacred in Everyday Life  Maaike de Haardt 5 Time, Gender, the Sacred, and Everyday Life  Akke van der Kooi Part 2: Textures 6 Menstruation and the Sacred in (Post) Biblical Discourse  Dorothea Erbele-Küster 7 Holy Wit: A Good Laugh with Samson (Judges 13–16)  Willien van Wieringen 8 Hats, Heads and Holiness in 1 Corinthians  Magda Misset-van de Weg 9 Hijab: The Female Body as Boundary  Gé Speelman Part 3: Powers 10 The Power of Place: Port-Royal, a Wounded Place Transfigured  Angela Berlis 11 Power of Communities: The Daily Practice of Holiness by the Sisters of the Common Life at Deventer  Mathilde van Dijk 12 The Power of Words: Sacred and Forbidden Love Magic in Medieval Ireland  Jacqueline Borsje 13 The Power of the Voice: Stabat Mater in Music and Text  Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes Part 4: 14 Women as Ritual Experts in Sacralising Everyday Home Life  Goedroen Juchtmans 15 Peace Women: Traces of the Holy/ the Sacred in the Midst of Injustice and Violence  Riet Bons-Storm 16 Music as a Bridge: Young Women in Migrant Churches in Amsterdam  Alma Lanser 17 Signs from Heaven: Figuring the Sacred in Contemporary Miracle Stories  Anne-Marie Korte Homemade Holiness: Re/Configuring Gender Studies in Religion Epilogue  Anne-Marie Korte Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Sources Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role of religion, especially Christianity, in morality, pro-social behavior and altruism? Are there innate human moral capacities in the human mind? When and how did they appear in the history of evolution? What is the real significance of Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount — does it set up unique moral standards or only crystallize humans’ innate moral intuitions? What is the role of religious teachings and religious communities in pro-social behavior? Christianity and the Roots of Morality: Philosophical, Early Christian, and Empirical Perspectives casts light on these questions through interdisciplinary articles by scholars from social sciences, cognitive science, social psychology, sociology of religion, philosophy, systematic theology, comparative religion and biblical studies. Contributors include: Nancy T. Ammerman, István Czachesz, Grace Davie, Jutta Jokiranta, Simo Knuuttila, Kristen Monroe, Mika Ojakangas, Sami Pihlström, Antti Raunio, Heikki Räisänen (✝), Risto Saarinen, Kari Syreeni, Lauri Thurén, Petri Ylikoski.Table of ContentsContents Foreword List of Contributors Introduction Petri Luomanen, Anne Birgitta Pessi and Ilkka Pyysiäinen Part 1 - Morality and Religion: Setting the Evolutionary and Philosophical Scene Moral Gods and the Origins of Human Cooperation Petri Ylikoski The Evolution of Morality and Religion Ilkka Pyysiäinen Religious Morality or Moral Religion? Kantian and Pragmatist Reflections Sami Pihlström Divine Evil, Godless Responsibility, Religious Happiness Mika Ojakangas Comment 1: Comments on Ilkka Pyysiäinen’s “The Evolution of Morality and Religion” Simo Knuuttila Comment 2: Religion Irrespective of Morality Jutta Jokiranta Part 2 - Morality and Early Christianity Morality and the Evolution of Christianity Petri Luomanen The Sermon on the Mount: Christian or Universal Ethics? Kari Syreeni Foundations of Early Christian Morality in the Light of Modern Argumentation Analysis Lauri Thurén Are Christians Better People? On the Contrast between “Us” and “Them” in Early Christian Rhetoric Heikki Räisänen Comment 1: Morality, Networks, and Cultural Evolution: A Short Commentary on Petri Luomanen’s “Morality and the Evolution of Christianity” István Czachesz Comment 2: Content and Motivation in Christian Ethics: Comments on Syreeni’s, Thurén’s, and Räisänen’s Papers Antti Raunio Part 3 - Morality and Christianity in Everyday Life Learning and Living the Golden Rule: Religious Communities and Morality Nancy T. Ammerman Religion and Moral Choice: Does an Innate Moral Sense Account for Religion’s Influence on Moral Choice? Kristen Monroe Religion and Morality: Empirical Illustrations Anne Birgitta Pessi Comment 1: A Theologian’s Response to Ammerman, Monroe, and Pessi Risto Saarinen Comment 2: Religion, Altruism, and Everyday Life: Some Reflections Grace Davie Synthesis for Further Discussion Petri Luomanen Index of Modern Authors Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn Juridification of Religion? Helge Årsheim and Pamela Slotte explore the extent to which developments currently taking place at the interface between law and religion in domestic, regional and international law can be conceptualized as instances of larger, multidimensional processes of juridification. The book relies on an expansive notion of juridification, departing from the narrower sense of juridification as the gradually increasing “colonization of the lifeworld” proposed by Jürgen Habermas in his Theory of Communicative Action (1987). More specifically, the book adapts the multidimensional notion of juridification outlined by Anders Molander and Lars Christian Blichner (2008), developing it into a more context-specific notion of juridification that is attendant to the specific nature of religion as a subject matter for law.Table of ContentsThe Juridification of Religion?  Introduction  1 Unpacking Juridification  2 Unpacking the Relationship between Law and Religion  3 From Law and Religion to the Juridification of Religion  Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIslamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the very first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Qatar. The contributors to this volume, coming from different disciplines and specializations, approached the key ethical questions raised by the emerging field of genomics, viz. the Genome Question (GQ), from various angles and perspectives. Their shared thesis is that the breadth and depth of both the GQ and the Islamic tradition necessitate going beyond just producing quick answers in response to immediate questions. In order to accommodate the complexity and wide scope of the GQ, the volume included critical analyses of the ethical discourse on genomics, from outside the Islamic tradition. Within the Islamic tradition, the contributing authors explored how the QG can be better explored by involving insights from various disciplines including Quran exegesis, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy and theology. Besides its interest for researchers and students specialized in ethics, bioethics and Islamic studies, this volume will be a source of important information for geneticists, genomicists and social scientists who are interested in the ethical discourse about genomics in the Muslim world. Contributors include Arzoo Ahmed, Abbas Amir, Saadia Bendenia, Mohammed Ghaly, Mutaz al-Khatib, Amara Naceur, Aasim I. Padela, Ayman Shabana, Trevor Stammers, Mehrunisha Suleman and Hub Zwart.Table of ContentsPreface About the Authors Introduction  Mohammed Ghaly Part 1:Collective Ijtihād and Genomics 1 Sharia Scholars and Modern Biomedical Advancements: What Role for Religious Ethics in the Genomic Era?  Mohammed Ghaly 2 Islamic Ethics and Genomics: Mapping the Collective Deliberations of Muslim Religious Scholars and Biomedical Scientists  Mohammed Ghaly 3 Transformation of the Concept of the Family in the Wake of Genomic Sequencing: An Islamic Perspective  Ayman Shabana Part 2: Genomics and Rethinking Human Nature 4 Conceptualizing the Human Being: Insights from the Genethics Discourse and Implications for Islamic Bioethics  Aasim I. Padela 5 Islamic Perspectives on the Genome and the Human Person: Why the Soul Matters  Arzoo Ahmed and Mehrunisha Suleman 6 The Ethical Limits of Genetic Intervention: Genethics in Philosophical and Fiqhi Discourses  Mutaz al-Khatib Part 3: Widening the Scope of Ethical Deliberations 7 In the Beginning Was the Genome: Genomics and the Bi-Textuality of Human Existence  Hub Zwart 8 Creation, Kinds and Destiny: A Christian View of Genome Editing  Trevor Stammers 9 Living with the Genome,by Angus Clark and Flo Ticehurst, within the Muslim Context  Ayman Shabana Part 4: Contributions in Arabic 10 الجينوم والطبيعة البشرية: مقاربة تحليلية في ضوء الفلسفة والعلم التجريبي والأخلاق الإسلامية  سعدية بن دنيا 11 سؤال الجينوم بين الخلِقْة والأخلاق: مقاربة دلالية معرفية في أخلاقيات علم الجينوم من منظور إسلامي  عباس أمير 12 الجينوم والحياة: تمديد الحياة وأثره الأخلاقي على المجتمعات الإسلامية  عمارة الناصر Index

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Book SynopsisMigration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences can offer a new paradigm of how the religious and the moral can play a significant role in addressing forced migration and displacementTable of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction  Ray Jureidini and Said Fares Hassan  2 Islamic Ethics, Human Rights and Migration  Khaled Abou El Fadl  3 The Living Fiqh, or Practical Theology, of Muslim Humanitarianism  Abbas Barzegar  4 Jiwār: from a Right of Neighbourliness to a Right to Neighbourhood for Refugees  Tahir Zaman  5 “Seeking a Widow with Orphaned Children”: Understanding Sutra Marriage Amongst Syrian Refugee Women in Egypt  Dina Taha  6 The Islamic Principle of Kafala as Applied to Migrant Workers: Traditional Continuity and Reform  Ray Jureidini and Said Fares Hassan  7 Normativity of Migration Studies Ethics and Epistemic Community  Sari Hanafi  8 How do Muslim States Treat their “Outsiders”?: Is Islamic Practice of Naturalisation Synonymous with Jus Sanguinis?  Radhika Kanchana  9 The Obligation to Migrate and the Impulse to Narrate: Soviet Narratives of Forced Migration in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus  Rebecca Gould  10 Experiences of Uyghur Migration to Turkey and the United States: Issues of Religion, Law, Society, Residence, and Citizenship  Mettursun Beydulla  11 Arab Immigrants under Hindu Kings in Malabar: Ethical Pluralities of “Naturalization” in Islam  Abdul Jaleel Index

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Book SynopsisThis book forms an introduction to the emerging discipline of “psychology of migration”, which is an interdisciplinary field of reflection and research, joining together diverse subfields of psychology with anthropological, sociological, demographic and historical inquiry on migration processes. The introductory chapter marks the borders of this borderline discipline, defines important notions and the subject of inquiry, and presents its main research themes together with prospective paths for the discipline’s development. The second chapter presents research methods applied in psychology of migration. Acculturation processes and their psychological analysis as well an impact on the mental health of migrants are the main topics of interest in the third chapter. The last chapter covers issues of mutual relations between religion and migration. Conclusive remarks on contemporary psychology of migration facing cultural and religious diversity in COVID-19 pandemic times are outlined, pointing at challenges the discipline will surely meet in the future.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Psychology of Migration – Crossing Borders as Seen from the Borderline (Discipline)  3 Research Methods in Psychology of Migration  4 Acculturation Processes and Mental Well-Being of Migrants as an Axis for Problem-Centered Psychology of Migration  5 A Look into the Future. Challenges for Psychology of Migration in the Context of Cultural and Religious Diversity  6 Instead of a Summation: Psychology of Migration in COVID-19 Times  Acknowledgements  References  Index

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Book SynopsisHow do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups? This volume explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (violent) conflict and the material turn within religious studies. This way, this volume sets the stage for the development of new conceptual and methodological directions in the study of religion-related violent conflict that takes materiality seriously.Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Material Religion, Conflict, and Violence  Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema 2 Accessing Things of Conflicts Poking Anthropology with Guns, Martyrdom, and Religion  Younes Saramifar 3 Material Politics, Violence, and Religion A Comparative Study of Islam and Buddhism in the People’s Republic of China  Daan F. Oostveen 4 Bypassing the Bulldozer The Materiality of State Violence on Religion in Kibera, Nairobi  Tammy Wilks 5 When Times Are Out of Joint Contestations of Official Temporal Religious Forms  Christoph Baumgartner 6 Witchcraft, Terrorism, and ‘Things of Conflict’ in Coastal Kenya  Erik Meinema 7 What’s in That Picture? Humanitarian Photographs and the Christian Iconography of Suffering and Violence  Lucien van Liere 8 The Significance of Materiality in Conflict Analysis, Healing, and Reconciliation  Joram Tarusarira 9 A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue Muslims and Jews Expressing Interfaith Solidarity in Response to the Paris and Copenhagen Attacks  Margaretha A. van Es Afterword Things for Thought  Birgit Meyer Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the cornerstones of Jesus’s moral teachings about how to lead a good, even exemplary, human life. It does so in a way that is compatible with the most prominent, competing versions of the historical Jesus. The work also contrast Jesus’ understanding of the best way to lead our lives with that of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both Jesus and Nietzsche were self-consciously moral revolutionaries. Jesus refashioned the imperatives of Jewish law to conform to what he was firmly convinced was the divine will. Nietzsche aspired to transvalue the dominant values of his time —which themselves were influenced greatly by Christianity— in service of what he took to be a higher vision. The interplay of these radical versions of the good human life, seasoned with critical commentary emerging from modern findings in the sciences and humanities, opens possibilities and lines of inquiry that can inform our choices in answering that enduring, paramount question, “How should we live our lives?”Trade ReviewA subtle interpreter of both Jesus and Nietzsche. … Belliotti writes well and with conviction, and it is a refreshing to see a commentator who, where appropriate, confronts and criticizes not just Nietzsche but also Jesus forthrightly. … recommended to both Nietzsche scholars and theologians, as well as a wider range of readers who simply seek to improve their lives. Religious Studies. Volume 50 (2014)Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Olli Loukola Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Introduction Nietzsche’s Life Problems of Interpretation in Nietzsche My (Mis)Interpretation of Nietzsche Jesus: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in It Family Relations Associating and Identifying with Undesirables Unsettling Established Rituals Interrogating Prevailing Norms of Just Distribution Material Minimalism Jesus and the Concept of Forgiveness Nietzsche: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in It Perspectivism Genealogical Critiques Crafting a Worthy Self Values Nietzsche’s Glad Tidings Master and Slave Moralities Going Beyond Good and Evil Eternal Recurrence Philosophy and Psychology Style and Rhetoric Tragic View of Life Jesus and Nietzsche Fundamental Understandings of Human Beings: Unconditional Love and the Will to Power The Power of Unconditional Love The Paradoxes of Agapic Love Parental Agape The Will to Power The Last Man and The Overman Nietzsche on Jesus Nietzsche on St. Paul and Christianity Nietzsche’s Understanding of Jesus Jesus and Engagement in this World Daunting Normative Ideals The Perfectionism of Jesus Perfectionism and Unconditional Love Extending Unconditional Love Unconditional Love and Abstraction A Summary of the Perfectionism of Jesus The Ethic of Jesus and Contemporary Philosophy Jesus’ Enduring Message The Perfectionism of Nietzsche Nietzsche’s Vision Aristocratic Privilege A Summary of the Perfectionism of Nietzsche The Perfectionism of Nietzsche and Contemporary Philosophy Jesus and Nietzsche: Toward a Synthesis Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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