Darrell J. Fasching, Dell Dechant, David M. Lantigua

Comparative Religious Ethics (eBook, PDF)

A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

This popular textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent global developments, whilst retaining its unique and compelling narrative-style approach. Using ancient stories from diverse religions, it explores a broad range of important and complex moral issues, resulting in a truly reader-friendly and comparative introduction to religious ethics. * A thoroughly revised and expanded new edition of this popular textbook, yet retains the unique narrative-style approach which has proved so successful with students * Considers the ways in which ancient stories from diverse religions, such as the Bhagavad Gita and the lives of Jesus and Buddha, have provided ethical orientation in the modern world * Updated to reflect recent discussions on globalization and its influence on cross-cultural and comparative ethics, economic dimensions to ethics, Gandhian traditions, and global ethics in an age of terrorism * Expands coverage of Asian religions, quest narratives, the religious and philosophical approach to ethics in the West, and considers Chinese influences on Thich Nhat Hanh's Zen Buddhism, and Augustine's Confessions * Accompanied by an instructor's manual (coming soon, see href="http://www.wiley.com/go/fasching">www.wiley.com/go/fasching) which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporary films

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444396119
• Artikelnr.: 38307183

Autorenporträt

Darrell J. Fasching is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida where he has previously served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. His published books include The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (1993) and The Coming of the Millennium (1996). He is also a co-author (with John Esposito and Todd Lewis) of World Religions Today (2006) and Religion and Globalization (2008). Dell deChant is Senior Instructor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author of a number of titles, including Religion and Culture in the West: A Primer (2008), and The Sacred Santa: Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture (2002). David M. Lantigua is a Ph.D. candidate in Moral Theology/Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. He is a contributor to Hispanic American Religious Cultures (2009), and has published in Aporia, undergraduate philosophy journal. For the spring of 2011 he has received a grant for dissertation research in Salamanca, Spain, to investigate the topics of religious rights, just war, and the limits of toleration among sixteenth-century Spanish theologians and jurists.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I Religion, Ethics, and Stories of War and Peace

1 Religion, Ethics, and Storytelling

2 Stories of War and Peace in an Age of Globalization

PART II War and Peace: Ancient Stories and Postmodern LifeStories Introduction: Ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima

3 Gilgamesh and the religious quest

4 The socratic religious experience: from the birth of ethics tothe quest for cosmopolis

5 Hindu stories - ancient and postmodern

6 Buddhist stories - ancient and postmodern

7 Jewish stories - ancient and postmodern

8 Christian stories - ancient and postmodern

9 Islamic stories - ancient and postmodern

PART III The Path To Global Ethics - The Way Of All TheEarth Introduction

10 Feminist audacity and the ethics of interdependence

11 Cosmopolis: the way of all the earth

Index of Names and Terms

Index of Subjects

See the Website for this book www.wiley.com/go/fasching for thefollowing:

Epilogue: Gandhian Ethics in an Age of Terrorism

Rezensionen

"It is indeed a very rare thing to have the opportunity andprivilege to work with a book that engages, challenges and provokesthe student to wrestle with the fundamental ethical questions ofour time. Comparative Religious Ethics is such a book.Intellectually rigorous, profoundly insightful and beautifullywritten, it is an invaluable resource for the instructor andstudent alike."
--Louise M. Doire, College of Charleston

"Comparative Religious Ethics invites the reader tocomprehend the ethical teachings of the world's religions by meansof narratives drawn from those traditions and from human historicalexperience. The stories range from Gilgamesh to Gandhi and fromHiroshima to globalization. Beneath the engaging narratives lies anapproach rich in theoretical insights from the study of comparativereligion and ethical theory."
--Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College