Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
Language: English
Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2011
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2011. 2nd Edition. Paperback. This new edition of Comparative Religious Ethics has been thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect recent global developments, whilst retaining its unique and compelling narrative-style approach which has proved so successful with students. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
- Author
- Darrell J. Fasching
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1444331337
- ISBN 13
- 9781444331332
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- 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
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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.
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