Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inter-religious understanding / Nancy M. Martin -- Being religious and doing ethics in a global world / Joseph Runzo -- Religion and the possiblity of a global ethics / Keith Ward -- Religious moral diversity and relationships / James Kellenberger -- Doing the right and the good : fundamental convictions and methods of Jewish ethics / Elliot N. Dorff -- Islamic ethics and gender issues / Zayn Kassam -- The evolutionary self in Christian and philosophical perspectives / Nathan Tierney -- The leveling of meaning : Christian ethics in a culture of unconcern / Philip Rossi -- Hindu ethics and dharma / Vasudha Narayanan -- Pushing the boundaries of personal ethics : the practice of Jaina vows / Christopher Key Chapple -- Practices of perfection : the ethical aim of Mahayana Buddhism / Dale S. Wright -- Confucianism : concern and civility / John H. Berthrong -- "That was then ..." : debating nonviolence within the textual traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher -- From agapé to organs : religious difference between Japan and America in judging the ethics of the transplant / William R. LaFleur -- Dogged loyalties : a classical Indian intervention in care ethics / Vrinda Dalmiya -- Christian social ethics in a global context / Brian Hebblethwaite -- Confucian cosmology and ecological ethics : qi, li, and the role of the human / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Multiplism : a Jaina ethics of toleration for a complex world / C. Ram-Prasad.