Comparative Religious Ethics

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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

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Darrell J. Fasching

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"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 College
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