Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction by R. E. Tully
Part I: Historical Perspectives
Chapter 1: Equality Deferred: A Litany of Discrimination by Robert J. Goldstein
Chapter 2: Equality and Diversity in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey by George
W. Gawrych
Chapter 3: The Social Practice of (In)equality in Nazi Germany by David S. Frey
Chapter 4: Social Inequality and the United States Army: The (Un)lucky Seven by Morten G.
Ender and Betsy Lucal
Chapter 5: Civil War Pension Policy: The Politics of Policy Subsystems by Brandon Jason
Archuleta
Chapter 6: Selecting a Military Court-Martial Panel: A Study of Inequality by LTC Christopher
Jacobs
Chapter 7: United Nations Peace Missions and Protection of Civilians: Equality versus
Efficiency? by Darya Pushkina
Part II: Theological Perspectives
Chapter 8: Ultimately Equal and Relatively Complicated: Questions about Equality in Teaching
Buddhist Studies by Dominique Townsend
Chapter 9: The Rabbinic Meritocracy and Its Discontents by Shai Secunda
Chapter 10: Equality in Paul of Tarsus—More and Less by Bruce Chilton
Chapter 11: The Perilous Promise of Equality: Scriptural Politics in Contemporary Iran by
Tehseen Thaver
Chapter 12: Gandhi, Krishna, and Caste: Inequality More or Less by Richard H. Davis
Part III: Philosophical Perspectives
Chapter 13: Men of Fortitude: Gender and Combatant Non-Immunity in War by Graham
Parsons
Chapter 14: Minding Gibbon’s Manners: Unwritten Rules and the Rhetoric of Equality by Hugh
Liebert
Chapter 15: A Kantian Approach to Recognizing Privilege by Courtney Morris
Chapter 16: Inequality in Skepticism by R. E. Tully
Epilogue by Bruce Chilton
Index
About the Contributors

About the Author

Robert Tully is professor emeritus of philosophy at West Point and the University of Toronto.

Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell professor of philosophy and religion and director of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.