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Book SynopsisThis book examines a fundamental social paradox: although less equality certainly entrenches injustice, more equality may nevertheless protect the advantages that one group enjoys over fellow citizens. Their studies confront us with vivid cases where equality for some is preferred to equality for all.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction by R. E. Tully Part I: Historical Perspectives Chapter 1: Equality Deferred: A Litany of Discrimination by Robert J. Goldstein Chapter 2: Equality and Diversity in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey by George W. Gawrych Chapter 3: The Social Practice of (In)equality in Nazi Germany by David S. Frey Chapter 4: Social Inequality and the United States Army: The (Un)lucky Seven by Morten G. Ender and Betsy Lucal Chapter 5: Civil War Pension Policy: The Politics of Policy Subsystems by Brandon Jason Archuleta Chapter 6: Selecting a Military Court-Martial Panel: A Study of Inequality by LTC Christopher Jacobs Chapter 7: United Nations Peace Missions and Protection of Civilians: Equality versus Efficiency? by Darya Pushkina Part II: Theological Perspectives Chapter 8: Ultimately Equal and Relatively Complicated: Questions about Equality in Teaching Buddhist Studies by Dominique Townsend Chapter 9: The Rabbinic Meritocracy and Its Discontents by Shai Secunda Chapter 10: Equality in Paul of Tarsus—More and Less by Bruce Chilton Chapter 11: The Perilous Promise of Equality: Scriptural Politics in Contemporary Iran by Tehseen Thaver Chapter 12: Gandhi, Krishna, and Caste: Inequality More or Less by Richard H. Davis Part III: Philosophical Perspectives Chapter 13: Men of Fortitude: Gender and Combatant Non-Immunity in War by Graham Parsons Chapter 14: Minding Gibbon’s Manners: Unwritten Rules and the Rhetoric of Equality by Hugh Liebert Chapter 15: A Kantian Approach to Recognizing Privilege by Courtney Morris Chapter 16: Inequality in Skepticism by R. E. Tully Epilogue by Bruce Chilton Index About the Contributors
