Ethics in the World Religions

Name: Ethics in the World Religions
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ISBN: 9781851682478

ISBN-10: 1851682473

ISBN-13: 9781851682478

Edition: 2001

Authors: Nancy M. Martin, Joseph Runzo

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In this book, some of the world's greatest philosophers and scholars of religion have come together to consider the role played by religious ethics in today's society. It considers what religion has to teach us about morality, behaviour and ethics.

Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 4/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Inter-Religious Understanding




Religion and Ethics



Being Religious and Doing Ethics in a Global World




Religion and the Possibility of a Global Ethics




Religious Moral Diversity and Relationships




Ethics and Religion in the West



Doing the Right and the Good: Fundamental Convictions and Methods of Jewish Ethics




Islamic Ethics and Gender Issues




The Evolutionary Self in Christian and Philosophical Perspectives




The Leveling of Meaning: Christian Ethics in a Culture of Unconcern




Ethics and Religion in Asia



Hindu Ethics and Dharma




Pushing the Boundaries of Personal Ethics: the Practice of Jaina Vows




Practices of Perfection: the Ethical Aim of Mahayana Buddhism




Confucianism: Concern and Civility




Ethical Issues Across Religious Traditions



"That was Then ...": Debating Nonviolence Within the Textual Traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam




From Agape to Organs: Religious Difference Between Japan and America in Judging the Ethics of the Transplant




Dogged Loyalties: A Classical Indian Intervention in Care Ethics




Global Views of Religious Ethics



Christian Social Ethics in a Global Context




Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: QI, LI, and the Role of the Human




Multiplism: A Jaina Ethics of Toleration for a Complex World



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Index