Comparative Religious Ethics
A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
2nd Edition
Published on 9. March 2011
376 pages
978-1-4443-9611-9 (ISBN)
Description
This popular textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated toreflect recent global developments, whilst retaining its unique andcompelling narrative-style approach. Using ancient stories fromdiverse religions, it explores a broad range of important andcomplex moral issues, resulting in a truly reader-friendly andcomparative introduction to religious ethics.
* A thoroughly revised and expanded new edition of this populartextbook, yet retains the unique narrative-style approach which hasproved so successful with students
* Considers the ways in which ancient stories from diversereligions, such as the Bhagavad Gita and the lives of Jesus andBuddha, have provided ethical orientation in the modern world
* Updated to reflect recent discussions on globalization and itsinfluence on cross-cultural and comparative ethics, economicdimensions to ethics, Gandhian traditions, and global ethics in anage of terrorism
* Expands coverage of Asian religions, quest narratives, thereligious and philosophical approach to ethics in the West, andconsiders Chinese influences on Thich Nhat Hanh's ZenBuddhism, and Augustine's Confessions
* Accompanied by an instructor's manual (coming soon, seewww.wiley.com/go/fasching)which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporaryfilms
Reviews / Votes
"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 CollegeMore details
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A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
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Persons
Darrell J. Fasching is Professor of Religious Studies at theUniversity of South Florida where he has previously served asAssociate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as Chair ofthe Department of Religious Studies. He is a co-author (with JohnEsposito and Todd Lewis) of World Religions Today (2008) andthe author of The Coming of the Millenium, Religion andGlobalization (1996), and Narrative Theology afterAuschwitz (1992).
Dell deChant is Instructor and Director of UndergraduateStudies in Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. Heis the author of a number of titles, including Religion andCulture in the West: A Primer (2008) and The Sacred Santa:Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture (2002). He is editorof the Journal of the Society for the Study of MetaphysicalReligions.
David Lantigua is a Ph.D. candidate in MoralTheology/Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. He is acontributor to Hispanic American Religious Cultures (2009)and has published in Aporia Undergraduate PhilosophyJournal. For the Spring of 2011 he has received a grant fordissertation research in Salamanca, Spain, to investigate thetopics of religious rights, just war, and the limits of tolerationamong sixteenth-century Spanish theologians and jurists.
Content
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 Life Stories.
Introduction: Ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima.
3. Gilgamesh and the Religious Quest.
4. The Socratic Religious Experience: From the Birth of Ethics to the 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 the Earth.
Introduction.
10. Feminist Audacity and the Ethics of Interdependence.
11. Cosmopolis: The Way of all the Earth.
Index of Subjects.
Index of Names and Terms.
See the Website for this book www.blackwellpublishing.com/faschingdechant/for the following:
Epilogue: Gandhian Ethics in an Age of Terrorism.
Appendix 1: The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Appendix 2: 2nd Parliament of World Religions Declaration Toward a Global Ethic.
