Research Catalog

Title

Applied ethics in religion and culture : contextual and global challenges / Jesse N.K. Mugambi and David W. Lutz, editors.

Publication

Nairobi, Kenya : Acton Publishers, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Mugambi, J. N. Kanyua (Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua)
• Lutz, David W.

Description

xi, 211 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Applied ethics
• Applied ethics > Religious aspects
• Globalization > Moral and ethical aspects
• Religious ethics
• Religious ethics > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Care and compassion: sharing values in the African context / Group report -- 2. Justice, participation and sustainability as pre-requisites for peaceful coexistence / Jesse N.K. Mugambi -- 3. The core of African traditional values / David M. Maillu -- 4. Elderhood as African oracle among the Agikuyu people / Harold F. Miller -- 5. The role of missionary religions in global ethics / Paul Mwangi -- t. The ethics of technology, culture and environment / David J. Ndegwa and Otto J. Kroesen -- 7. Colonial policy towards Muslim personal law in Kenya and post-colonial court practice / Abdulkarir Hashim -- 8. Ethical challenges of international research in Africa / Eunice K. Kamaara and Anne W. Njoroge -- 9. Implications of social contract theory for women in Africa / Loreen Maseno -- 10. Catholic tradition and the globalisation of Democracy / David W. Lutz.

ISBN

• 9789966888181 (pbk.)
• 9966888187 (pbk.)

OCLC

824796647

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Harvard Library