Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, this volume brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue, addressing questions of global moral issues in a cross-cultural context.

Introduction: A New Venue for Comparative Religious Ethics -- Comparative Religious Ethics and Interreligious Dialogue -- Four Paradigms in Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics -- Scholarship and Citizenship: Comparative Religious Ethicists as Public Intellectuals -- Reckoning with Religious Difference: Models of Interreligious Moral Dialogue -- A Global Ethic in the Light of Comparative Religious Ethics -- Commentary on Part One -- Religious Perspectives in Dialogue on Global Moral Issues -- Religion and Human Rights: A Comparative Perspective -- The Problem of Distributive Justice in World Religions -- "Teachers of Reality": Voices of Resistance and Reconstruction -- Piety, Politics, and the Limits Set by God: Implications of Islamic Political Thought for Christian Theology -- Religions and the Ethics of International Business -- Environmental Ethics in Interreligious Perspective -- From Genocide to Global Ethics by Way of Storytelling -- Commentary on Part Two