Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics - Softcover

Fasching, Darrell J.; DeChant, Dell; Lantigua, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444331337 ISBN 13: 9781444331332

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

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 www.wiley.com/go/fasching) which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporary films

About this title

From the Back Cover

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

"Comparative Religious Ethics invites the reader to comprehend the ethical teachings of the world's religions by means of narratives drawn from those traditions and from human historical experience. The stories range from Gilgamesh to Gandhi and from Hiroshima to globalization. Beneath the engaging narratives lies an approach rich in theoretical insights from the study of comparative religion and ethical theory."
Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College

The new edition of this popular textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent global developments. The book retains the unique and compelling narrative-style approach that has proved so successful with students; reflecting the ways in which ancient stories from diverse religions, such as the Bhagavad Gita and the lives of Jesus and Buddha, have been used by twentieth-century social activists, such as Gandhi, M. L. King, Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh, to project an ethical framework and provide ethical orientation in the modern world.

New to this edition are discussions of globalization and its influence on cross-cultural and comparative ethics, ecological dimensions to ethics, and Gandhian traditions of non-violence and global ethics in an age of terrorism. The book considers Augustine's Confessions in relation to the stories of Gilgamesh and the Buddha as quest narratives. It also considers Chinese Daoist influences on Thich Nhat Hanh's Zen Buddhism. Greater in-depth discussions are included on Asian religions, the role of virtue in quest narratives, and the religious and philosophical approach to ethics in the West.

Exploring a broad range of important and complex moral issues in a clear and absorbing style, this is a truly reader- friendly and comparative introduction to religious ethics.

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444331337
• ISBN 13: 9781444331332
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384