Religious Ethics in a Time of Globalism: Shaping a Third Wave of Comparative Analysis (Content and Context in Theological Ethics)

This book contains essays on current projects from several rising figures in religious ethics, collected into a field-shaping anthology of new work. As a whole, the book argues that religious ethics should make cultural and moral diversity central to its analysis. This can include three main aspects, in various combinations: first, describing and interpreting particular ethics on the basis of historical, anthropological, or other data; second, comparing such ethics (in the plural), which requires rigorous reflection on the methods and tools of inquiry; and third, engaging in normative argument on the basis of such studies, and thereby speaking to particular moral controversies, as well as contemporary concerns about overlapping identities, cultural complexity and plurality, universalism and relativism, and political problems regarding the coexistence of divergent groups.

ELIZABETH BUCAR Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA DAVID CLAIRMONT Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA ERIN CLINE Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, USA GRACE KAO Associate Professor, Claremont Graduate University, USA THOMAS A. LEWIS Vartan Gregorian Associate Professor, Brown University, USA IRENE OH Assistant Professor, George Washington University, USA AARON STALNAKER Associate Professor, Indiana University, USA