Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Canada. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. His publications include Hinduism and Human Rights (2004) and Hinduism On Its Own Terms (2016). He is also the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (2017).
Arvind Sharma has been a member of the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University since 1987. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He is the author of Are Human Rights Western? (2006) and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology (2005).

This set is an unprecedented examination of religion's influence on modern life, an honest assessment of how religion can either destroy us or preserve us, and a thorough exploration of what steps might be necessary for all religions to join together as a force for good.
Convening on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the global congress The World's Religions after September 11 explored the negative and positive possibilities of the religious dimensions of life. The presentations from the congress have been pulled together in this set, which addresses religion's intersection with human rights, spirituality, science, healing, the media, international diplomacy, globalization, war and peace, and more. This comprehensive set includes contributions from such well-known scholars of religion as Arvind Sharma and a host of others from all the world's religious traditions. This set is an unprecedented examination of religion's influence on modern life, an honest assessment of how religion can either destroy us or preserve us, and a thorough exploration of what steps might be necessary for all religions to join together as a force for good.
Because of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the very concept of religion underwent a paradigm shift. Instead of standing for virtue and piety, peace and harmony, the word religion also came to be inextricably associated with evil, aggression, and terror. People around the world began to question whether the religious and secular dimensions of modern life can be reconciled, whether the different religions of the world can ever coexist in harmony. Indeed, the very future of religion itself has sometimes seemed to be uncertain, or at least suspect.

Volume 1, Religion, War, and Peace
Introduction by Arvind Sharma
The Violent Bear It Away: Christian Reflections on Just War by William R. ONeill
Turning War Inside Out: New Perspectives for the Nuclear Age by Marcia Sichol
Demonic Religion and Violence by Lloyd Steffen
Bhagavadgt and War: Some Early Anticipations of the Gandhian Interpretation of the Bhagavadgt by Arvind Sharma
Just- War Theory in South Asia: Indic Success, Sri Lankan Failure? by Katherine K. Young
Religion and Terror: A Post-9/11 Analysis by Stephen Healey
The Approach of Muslim Turkish People to Religious Terror by Ramazan Bicer
Is It Relevant to Talk about Democracy in Lebanon in the Aftermath of the Summer 2006 Conflictsmbats? by Pamela Chrabieh
9/11 and Korean-American Youth: A Study on Two Opposing Forces by Heerak Christian Kim
Sacrificing the Paschal Lamb: A Road Toward Peace by Jean Donovan
Seeking the Peace of the Global City of Knowledge of God after 9/11 by Aaron Gaius
The Golden Rule and World Peace by Patricia A. Keefe
World Religions and World Peace: Toward a New Partnership by Brian D. Lepard
Volume 2, Religion and Human Rights
The Current State of the Individual: A Meditation on The Falling Man byMaurice Boutin
Lockes Inheritors: The Dilemma of Religious Toleration by Matt Sheedy
Religion and an Implicit Fundamental Human Right by James Kellenberger
Religion and Human Rights: A Historical and Contemporary Assessment by Krishna Kanth Tigiripalli and Lalitha Kumari Kadarla
Achieving Religious Harmony by Rhoda Asikia Ige
The Grammar of Dissent: Religion, Rights, and Public Reason by William R. ONeill
Divine Rights: Toward a New Synthesis of Human Rights and World Religions by Brian D. Lepard
Universality of Moral Norms: A Human Rights Perspective by Kusumita P. Pedersen
Is the Notion of Human Rights a Western Concept? by Raimundo Panikkar
What Gives a Person Worth? A Zoroastrian View by Nikan H. Khatibi
Women and Human Rights by Abha Singh
Catholicism and the AIDS Pandemic by Xavier Gravend-Tirole
Religion, Violence, and Human Rights: A Hindu Perspective by Arvind Sharma
Confucian Contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective by Sumner B. Twiss
Religious Freedom, the Right to Proselytize, and the Right To Be Let Alone by Kusumita P. Pedersen
The Rationale for a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Worlds Religions: Before and after September 11, 2001 by Arvind Sharma
A Bah Perspective on the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights by the Worlds Religions after September 11, 2001 by Brian D. Lepard
Appendix 1 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix 2 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Worlds Religions
Appendix 3 A Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Hindus
Appendix 4 Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix 5 The Dhaka Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Appendix 6 The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Appendix 7 Arab Charter on Human Rights
Appendix 8 Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
Appendix 9 A Global Ethic: The Universal Declaration of the Parliament of the Worlds Religions

Volume 3, The Interfaith Dimension
Introduction by Arvind Sharma
Master Hsin Taos Vision: The Museum of World Religions by Maria Reis Habito
Movement and Institution: Necessary Elements of
Sustaining the Interfaith Vision by David A. Leslie
Pluralism as a Way of Dealing with Religious Diversity by Caitlin Crowley
Promotion of Inter-religious Dialogue by Mihai Valentin Vladimirescu
Re-defining Humanity and Civilization by Nadine Sultana dOsman Han
Along a Path Less Travelled: A Plurality of Religious Ultimates? by Arvind Sharma
The Great Chain of Pluralism: Religious Diversity
According to John Hick and the Perennial Philosophy by Andrew Noel Blakeslee
Religious Maya by Patricia Reynaud
The Concept of Peace and Security in Islam by Muhammad Hammad Lakhvi
Inter-religious Dialogue Attentive to Western Enlightenment by Gregory Baum
Lessons from Hinduism for the World after 9/11 by Ashok Vohra
Orientalist Feminism and Islamophobia/Iranophobia by Roksana Bahramitash
Women's Interfaith Initiatives in the United States Post-9/11 by Kathryn Lohre
John Paul II and Benedict XVI on the Jewish Tradition by Harold Kasimow
Peace Education: Building on Zarathushtrian Principles by Farishta Murzban Dinshaw
Protestantism and Candombl in Bahia: From Intolerance to Dialogue (and Beyond) by Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. and Devaka Premawardhana
An Analytical Inquiry into Islamic and Western Meth