John C. Raines is Professor of Religion at Temple University. He is the coauthor, with Donna C. Day-Lower, of Modern Work and Human Meaning. Daniel C. Maguire is Professor of Ethics at Marquette University. He is the author of Death by Choice and The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity: Reclaiming the Revolution, coauthor, with Larry Rasmussen, of Ethics for a Small Planet, and coeditor, with Harold Coward, of Visions of a New Earth: Religious Perspectives on Population, Consumption, and Ecology, the latter two also published by SUNY Press.
Introduction
John C. Raines
1. A Hindu Perspective
Anantanand Rambachan
2. A Protestant Christian Perspective
Marvin M. Ellison
3. Bumuntu Paradigm and Gender Justice: Sexist and Antisexist Trends in African Traditional Religions
Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha
4. Islam, Women, and Gender Justice
Asghar Ali Engineer
5 A Jewish Perspective
Ze'ev W. Falk
6. A Roman Catholic Perspective
Gerard S. Sloyan
7. Islam and Gender Justice: Beyond Simplistic Apologia,
Farid Esack
8. A Thai Buddhist Perspective
Tavivat Puntarigvivat
9. A Taoist Perspective: Appreciating and Applying the Principle of Femininity
Liu Xiaogan
10. A Native North American Perspective: To Protect the Ground We Walk On,
Christopher Ronwanièn:te Jocks
Conclusion
Daniel C. Maguire
List of Contributors
Index