deChant, Dell
Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
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 which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporary films
Keywords: moral theology, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Thich Mhat Hanh
- Author(s)
- deChant, Dell
- Fasching, Darrell J.
- Lantigua, David M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2
- Page amount
- 400 pages
- Category
- Religions
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781444396126
- Printed ISBN
- 9781444331332