Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics, 2nd Edition

Wiley-Interscience

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UPC:
9781444331332
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
4/22/2011
Release Date:
4/22/2011
Author:
Fasching
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Edition:
2
Pages:
384
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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 Hanhs Zen Buddhism, and Augustines Confessions Accompanied by an instructors manual (coming soon, see www.wiley.com/go/fasching) which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporary films