Dissent on Core Beliefs

Religious and Secular Perspectives

Simone Chambers, Peter Nosco

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781107101524
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316310915
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Philosophy of Religion

Difference, diversity and disagreement are inevitable features of our ethical, social and political landscape. This collection of new essays investigates the ways that various ethical and religious traditions have dealt with intramural dissent; the volume covers nine separate traditions: Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, liberalism, Marxism, South Asian religions and natural law. Each chapter lays out the distinctive features, history and challenges of intramural dissent within each tradition, enabling readers to identify similarities and differences between traditions. The book concludes with an Afterword by Michael Walzer, offering a synoptic overview of the challenge of intramural dissent and the responses to that challenge. Committed to dialogue across cultures and traditions, the collection begins that dialogue with the common challenges facing all traditions: how to maintain cohesion and core values in the face of pluralism, and how to do this in a way that is consistent with the internal ethical principles of the traditions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Liberalism and internal dissent
• Chapter 3 Intramural dissent: Marxism
• Chapter 4 Dissent on core beliefs in natural law
• Chapter 5 The management of intramural dissent in Judaism
• Chapter 6 Christianity and the management of intramural dissent
• Chapter 7 Intramural dissent on core beliefs in Islam
• Chapter 8 Dissent and diversity in South Asian religions
• Chapter 9 Confucianism and dissent on core beliefs
• Chapter 10 Intramural dissent in Buddhism
• Chapter 11 Afterword
• Selected bibliography
• Index