Euthanasia, Abortion, Death Penalty and Religion - The Right to Life and its Limitations
Euthanasia, Abortion, Death Penalty and Religion - The Right to Life and its Limitations

Author: Hans-Georg Ziebertz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-16

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 3319987739

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This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life. It features more than 10 papers written by scholars from 14 countries that offer international comparative empirical research. Inside, readers will find case studies from such areas as: India, Chile, Germany, Italy, England, Palestine, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Poland. The papers focus on three limitations of the right to life: the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. The contributors explore how young people understand and evaluate the right to life and its limitations. The book presents unique empirical research among today's youth and reveals that, among other concepts, religiosity matters. It provides insight into the acceptance, perception, and legitimation of human rights by people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. This investigation rigorously tests for inter-individual differences regarding political and judicial rights on religious grounds, while controlling for other characteristics. It will help readers better understand the many facets of this fundamental, yet controversial, philosophical question. The volume will be of interest to students, researchers, as well as general readers searching for answers.

Consistently Opposing Killing
Consistently Opposing Killing

Author: Rachel M. MacNair

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2008-04-30

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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This work explains an increasingly popular view dubbed the Consistent Life Ethic, which holds that all life deserves reverence, so all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn. The call is for opposition to abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia and other forms of killing to be consistent. Supporters of this view, shared widely in these pages, include figures from the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malread Corrifon Maguire to actor Martin Sheen and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff. It is at once an ethical, religious and political ideology, explored here in its application to actions from treatment of unborn humans to infants, the disabled, the poverty-stricken, war combatants and animals. In the work at hand, contributors explain the history of the pro-life movement, its growth and expansion, how these types of seemingly disparate killing are all linked, why a Consistent Life Ethic is needed, and how individuals can take steps to assure this ethic is more widely accepted.

Causing Death and Saving Lives
Causing Death and Saving Lives

Author: Jonathan Glover

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1990-06-28

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0141949732

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The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.

The Ethics of Death
The Ethics of Death

Author: Lloyd Steffen

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1451487576

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In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Their respectful and engaging dialogue highlights the complex and challenging issues that surround many deaths in our modern world and helps readers frame thoughtful responses. Unafraid of difficult topics, Steffen and Cooley fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.

The Winning Side
The Winning Side

Author: Charles E. Rice

Publisher: St. Augustine's Press

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781587319235

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Charles Rice argues that we can build a culture of life, and shows that the culture of death is itself dying. A teacher of constitutional law and jurisprudence for three decades, at Notre Dame and Ave Maria College, Rice traces legalized abortion and euthanasia to their origins. He argues that the American republic is dead and the Constitution cannot be restored to what it was in the beginning. Yet this is a hope-filled book, for he offers a blueprint for reform. Readers will find a challenge - and discomfort - in his answers on such subjects as abortion, euthanasia, contraception, public schools, and vouchers, Catholic universities, "gay rights," pacifism, the death penalty, immigration, and even global free trade.

Problems of Death
Problems of Death

Author: David L. Bender

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Presents opposing viewpoints on euthanasia, abortion, suicide, and funeral homes through essays by a variety of authors. Includes discussion activities.

Problems of Death
Problems of Death

Author: James D. Torr

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780737703504

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The most divisive and emotionally charged issues of the day -- abortion, the death penalty, and euthanasia -- all have one thing in common: They are matters of life and death. Authors debate these perpetually contentious issues in the following chapters: Is Abortion Moral? Is Capital Punishment Just? Should Society Condone Physician-Assisted Suicide? How Should Individuals View Death?

Human Rights and the Separation of State and Religion
Human Rights and the Separation of State and Religion

Author: Francis-Vincent Anthony

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-08-05

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 3031339983

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This text highlights key aspects of the religion/church-state relationship/debate, and related hitherto marginal topics. The contributions make clear that there is no clear blueprint for an optimal relationship between religion/church and state. Individual states and countries are analysed on the granular level for example, to address mono-religious against poly-religious as well as secular societies. Among others, chapters address education, migration and politics against religion as well as the effect of LGBTQ+ communities on religion and societies. This collected volume appeals to researchers, and students working in religious studies and political science.