Many and the One Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World

"This thoughtful, lively book will animate and advance a debate of great value to us as citizens as well as scholars. Can we grasp the moral order of the world we inhabit--and its conflicts and disorder, too--in terms of coherent ethical traditions, lawful visions, and modes of reasoning? In doing so, can we critically embrace the different laws and ways of knowing institutionalized in the separate spheres of modern social life, and the contrary traditions, sacred and secular, of a multicultural world both expanded and shrunk by its global interdependence? These engaging essays shed new light on how to shape and wrestle with such questions across the usual boundaries of moral and social philosophy, religious ethics, and the social sciences."--Steven Tipton, Emory University, author ofGetting Saved from the Sixties "I'm glad I read this book (and took some useful notes). I learned a great deal and so, I suspect, will other readers in such areas as ethics and political philosophy."--John Coleman, Loyola Marymount University, author ofReligion and NationalismMadsen, Richard is the author of 'Many and the One Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World' with ISBN 9780691099934 and ISBN 0691099936.