Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-328) and index.
Contents
Prelude: Toward a Politics of Relationality -- Human Rights -- The Idea of Human Rights: A Communitarian Perspective -- On the Suffering and Rights of Children: Toward a Theology of Childhood Liberation -- Interlude: Affirmative Action and the Deprivations of Racism -- Economic Relations -- The Meaning and Use of Property -- Corporate Governance and Democracy -- Interlude: The Socialist Vision Revisited -- Religious Commitment -- Religion as Critique and the Critique of Religion: The Problem of the Self in the Modern World -- Crossing the Boundaries: Interreligious Dialogue and the Political Question -- Interlude: Wisdom and Compassion--The Deeper Dimensions of Understanding -- Social Conflict -- The Politics of Annihilation and the Mission of Higher Education -- On Making Peace: Nonviolence and the Principle of Relationality -- Interlude: Criminality and Community -- Ecological Community -- Ecology and Social Justice: Shattering the Boundaries of Moral Community -- Postlude: Koinonology and the Ecological Principle.