Comparative Religious Ethics - Gudorf, Christine E
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Unlike other texts, Gudorfs work focuses on common, everyday issuesincluding food and diet, work, sex and marriage, proper dress, anger and violence, charity, family, and infirmity and the elderlywhile drawing out ethical implications of each and demonstrating how different religious traditions prescribe rules for action. An introductory chapter reviews standard ethical theory and core elements of comparative religious analysis. Each chapter opens with a riveting real-life case and shows how religious ethics can shed light on how to handle the larger issues, without determining for the reader what a proper ethical response might be.…mehr

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Unlike other texts, Gudorfs work focuses on common, everyday issuesincluding food and diet, work, sex and marriage, proper dress, anger and violence, charity, family, and infirmity and the elderlywhile drawing out ethical implications of each and demonstrating how different religious traditions prescribe rules for action. An introductory chapter reviews standard ethical theory and core elements of comparative religious analysis. Each chapter opens with a riveting real-life case and shows how religious ethics can shed light on how to handle the larger issues, without determining for the reader what a proper ethical response might be.
Autorenporträt
Christine E. Gudorf is professor of religious studies at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She is past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and was on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. She has received numerous Fulbright grants for research in Indonesia and is the author of several books, including Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach, 3rd edition, and coedited Ethics in World Religions: A Cross-Cultural Casebook.