Religion and Culture in Dialogue

1. Proglomena: Globalisation, Cultural Identity and Diversity
Jānis Tālivaldis Ozoliņš

Part I. The Nature of Belief

2. ‘I hope I believe in God’: Some Implications for Contemporary Ethics
Bernadette Tobin

3. Ethical Beliefs
Peter Drum

4. Faith, Philosophy and the Elemental
Richard J. Colledge

Part II. Dialogues Between Culture and Tradition

5. The Nature of Religious Dialogue, the Diversity Argument and Religious Pluralism
John G. Quilter

6. Aquinas’ Natural Law Versus Ethical and Cultural Pluralism
John F. X. Knasas

Part III. Eastern Perspectives on God and Ethics

7. God and Conceptions of Immanence and Transcendence in Aquinas and Mèngzǐ
Jānis Tālivaldis Ozoliņš

8. The Confucian Filial Duty to Care (xiao 孝) for Elderly Parents
T. Brian Mooney, John N. Williams

9. A Daughter’s Filiality, A Courtesan’s Moral Propriety and a Wife’s Conjugal Love: Rethinking Confucian Ethics for Women in the Tale of Kiều (Truyện Kiều)

Jonathan Y. Tan

Part IV. Human Dignity and Rights

10. The Patristic Notion of Person and Its Importance for Modern Culture
Dan Chițoiu

11. Questioning Human Dignity: The Dimensions of Dignity Model as a Bridge Between Cosmopolitanism and the Particular
David G. Kirchhoffer

12. Human Rights, Religious Culture, and Dialogue
William Sweet

13. Life Experience, Values and Education
Maija Kūle

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Non-Western Philosophy, Ethics, Classical Philosophy, Political Philosophy