ed. Patricia M. Mische and Melissa Merkling (New York: Peter Lang, 2001)

Creating a peaceful and sustainable global future is as much an ethical and spiritual matter as an economic, social, and legal one. To respond to the challenges resulting from today’s global economic and ecological interdependence, twenty-one distinguished scholars from the world’s major religions describe their tradition’s contributions to the development of a shared global ethic. Contributors from Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Confucian, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Baha’i, and traditional African perspectives consider their tradition’s respect for national, cultural, and religious diversity, and its applications in humane and effective global governance structures and systems. They show how each tradition frames comprehensive values for human society, contains seeds of world systems thinking, and approaches multireligious initiatives. Patricia Mische completed work on this volume during a visiting fellowship at the Kroc Institute in 1998-

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