Sumner Twiss
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Sumner Twiss's Degrees
- Bachelors Religion Oberlin College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dr. Sumner Twiss was Distinguished Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion at Florida State University, where he held joint appointments in the Department of Religion and the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights. He served as a Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He was a leading authority on theories of religion and comparative religious ethics, and served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics and Senior Editor of a book series, Advancing Human Rights .
Sumner Twiss's Published Works
Published Works
- History, Human Rights, and Globalization (2004) (48)
- Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach (2001) (48)
- Torture, Justification, and Human Rights: Toward an Absolute Proscription (2007) (46)
- THE CLASSICAL CONFUCIAN POSITION ON THE LEGITIMATE USE OF MILITARY FORCE (2012) (38)
- Cam and Tappet Lubrication. IV–Radioactive Study of Sulfur in the EP Film (1959) (33)
- Experience of the Sacred Readings in the Phenomenology of Religion (1992) (31)
- Cam and Tappet Lubrication III — Radioactive Study of Phosphorus in the EP Film (1958) (30)
- Comparative religious ethics (1978) (24)
- Explorations In Global Ethics: Comparative Religious Ethics And Interreligious Dialogue (1998) (22)
- CLASSICAL CONFUCIANISM, PUNITIVE EXPEDITIONS, AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION (2012) (20)
- Application of Infrared Spectroscopy to Exhaust Gas Analysis (1955) (19)
- The Philosophy of Religious Pluralism: A Critical Appraisal of Hick and His Critics (1990) (16)
- Adhesion of Liquids to Solids. Molecular Interaction between Metal Oxides and Adsorbed Vapors (1953) (13)
- The problem of moral responsibility in medicine. (1977) (13)
- COMPARATIVE ETHICS, A COMMON MORALITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS (2005) (11)
- GLOBAL ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A REFLECTION (2011) (11)
- Ethical issues in genetic screening; models of genetic responsibility. (1974) (9)
- On cross-cultural conflict and pediatric intervention. (2006) (8)
- Molecular Interaction between n-Propyl Alcohol and Iron or Iron Oxides (1953) (7)
- Religious diversity and American religious history : studies in traditions and cultures (1998) (7)
- Effect of Temperature on the Adsorption of n-Decane on Iron (1954) (6)
- Comparison in Religious Ethics (2007) (5)
- Politics and Religion in France and the United States (2007) (5)
- Religion and public policy : human rights, conflict, and ethics (2015) (5)
- ETHICAL ISSUES IN PRIORITY‐SETTING FOR THE UTILIZATION OF GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES (1976) (4)
- Human Rights and Comparative Religious Ethics: A New Venue (1995) (4)
- CAN A PERPETRATOR WRITE A TESTIMONIO? Moral Lessons from the Dark Side (2010) (4)
- Some factors affecting McCaman-Robins test results in screening newborns for PKU. (1966) (4)
- Human Rights and Religion (2013) (3)
- Humanities and Atrocities: Some Reflections (2005) (3)
- Curricular Perspectives in Comparative Religious Ethics: A Critical Examination of Four Paradigms (1993) (3)
- On the Legacy of Christian Ethics in Comparative Religious Ethics (2019) (3)
- Distribution of an EP Film on Wear Surfaces (1960) (2)
- Religion and Human Rights: A Comparative Perspective (2018) (2)
- War and the Right to Life: Orthodox Christian Perspectives (2015) (2)
- On Reformed Christianity and Natural Human Rights (2015) (2)
- Properties of Friction Materials I—Experiments on Variables Affecting Noise (1958) (2)
- Properties of Friction Materials II—Theory of Vibration in Brakes (1958) (2)
- Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience and Religion as a Natural Right (2015) (2)
- Corrosion Testing of Aluminum ★ (Part 1 — High Velocity Test Method in Aqueous Solutions) (1956) (2)
- Parental Responsibility for Genetic Health (1974) (2)
- The human fetus as useful research material. (1973) (2)
- Christian and Confucian Rapprochement in the UDHR Debate (2019) (1)
- 13. The genetic counselor as moral advisor. (1979) (1)
- The Practices of Global Ethics: Historical Backgrounds, Current Issues, and Future Prospects (2016) (1)
- Bonding Processes in Automotive Manufacture (1973) (1)
- Introduction: A New Venue for Comparative Religious Ethics (2018) (1)
- Editors' Note: Editors' Note (2011) (1)
- Examining the pros and cons of parental responsibility for genetic health. (1974) (1)
- Corrosion Testing of Aluminum★ (Part 2-Development of a Corrosion Inhibitor) (1956) (1)
- Reflections on the relationship between human rights and global ethics (2020) (1)
- Alternative approaches to patient and family medical ethics: review and assessment. (1995) (1)
- After Principles. Garrett Barden (1992) (1)
- Four Paradigms in Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics (2018) (1)
- Contributors (2007) (0)
- 16. Problems of social justice in applied human genetics. (1979) (0)
- Implications for Democracy and Tradition for Comparative Religious Ethics (2004) (0)
- Freedom of Conscience and Religion: A Brief Reflection (2012) (0)
- Wang Yang-ming’s ethics of war (2015) (0)
- Gibson Island Conferences: The Frontiers in Chemistry Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1946) (0)
- JUST WAR IN CLASSICAL CHINESE THOUGHT: Introduction (2012) (0)
- Religion and Politics: Seeking a Reconciliation (2015) (0)
- SOME CONCEPTS OF THE ACTION OF AN ANTIWEAR ADDITIVE (1958) (0)
- FOCUS ON ETHICS AND ATROCITY: An Introduction (2010) (0)
- Adhesive Requirements for the Automotive Industry (1964) (0)
- PANEL DISCUSSION (1976) (0)
- The Core of Public Reason: Freedom from Arbitrary Pain and Death (2015) (0)
- American association for the advancement of science—gibson island conferences. Frontiers in chemistry (1946) (0)
- The Practices of Global Ethics (2016) (0)
- Program Ninth AAAS-Gibson Island Conference, 17 June--24 August: Frontiers in Chemistry. (1946) (0)
- Islam and Human Rights: The Religious and the Secular in Conversation (2015) (0)
- Non-Western traditions in the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. (1996) (0)
- Experience of the sacred (2016) (0)
- On Truth and Justification in "Ethics after Babel" (1990) (0)
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