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Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
Contributor(s): Fasching, Darrell J. (Author), Dechant, Dell (Author), Lantigua, David M. (Author)
ISBN: 1444331337     ISBN-13: 9781444331332
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $61.33  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Ethics
- Religion | Christianity - General
Dewey: 205
LCCN: 2010049298
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 7.53" W x 9.65" (1.59 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Publisher Description:
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 (coming soon, see www.wiley.com/go/fasching) which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporary films