The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schweiker, William

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written by internationally renowned scholars, this Companion maps the moral teachings of the world's religions, and also charts new directions for work in the field of religious ethics.

• Now available in paperback, this is a rich resource for understanding the moral teachings and practices of the world's religions
• Includes detailed discussions of issues in moral theory
• Offers extensive treatment of the world's major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese religions and African religions
• Compares the ways in which the religions provide resources for addressing current moral challenges in areas such as ecology, economics, global dynamics, religious war, human rights and other topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405144445
• Artikelnr.: 38458898

Autorenporträt

William Schwieker is Director of the Martin Marty Center and Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. He is the author of Mimetic Reflections: A Study in Hermeneutics, Theology and Ethics (1990); Responsibility and Christian Ethics (1995); Power, Value and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age (1998); and Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds (2004). He has published numerous articles and award-winning essays, as well as edited and contributed to five volumes on moral theory and hermeneutics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
On Religious Ethics.
PART I: MORAL INQUIRY.
PART II: MORAL TRADITIONS.
PART III: MORAL ISSUES.
Glossary.
Index