Darrell J. Fasching & Dell deChant 
Comparative Religious Ethics [PDF ebook] 
A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics

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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 Hanh’s Zen
Buddhism, and Augustine’s Confessions
* Accompanied by an instructor’s manual (coming soon, see
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Part I: Religion, Ethics and Stories of War and Peace.
1. Religion, Ethics, and Storytelling.
2. Stories of War and Peace in an Age of Globalization.
Part II: War and Peace: Ancient Stories and Postmodern Life Stories.
Introduction: Ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima.
3. Gilgamesh and the Religious Quest.
4. The Socratic Religious Experience: From the Birth of Ethics to the Quest for Cosmopolis.
5. Hindu Stories – Ancient and Postmodern.
6. Buddhist Stories – Ancient and Postmodern.
7. Jewish Stories – Ancient and Postmodern.
8. Christian Stories – Ancient and Postmodern.
9. Islamic Stories – Ancient and Postmodern.
Part III: The Path to Global Ethics: The Way of all the Earth.
Introduction.
10. Feminist Audacity and the Ethics of Interdependence.
11. Cosmopolis: The Way of all the Earth.
Index of Subjects.
Index of Names and Terms.
See the Website for this book www.blackwellpublishing.com/faschingdechant/for the following:
Epilogue: Gandhian Ethics in an Age of Terrorism.
Appendix 1: The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Appendix 2: 2nd Parliament of World Religions Declaration Toward a Global Ethic.

Tentang Penulis

Darrell J. Fasching is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida where he has previously served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. His published books include The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (1993) and The Coming of the Millennium (1996). He is also a co-author (with John Esposito and Todd Lewis) of World Religions Today (2006) and Religion and Globalization (2008).
Dell de Chant is Senior Instructor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author of a number of titles, including Religion and Culture in the West: A Primer (2008), and The Sacred Santa: Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture (2002).
David M. Lantigua is a Ph.D. candidate in Moral Theology/Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. He is a contributor to Hispanic American Religious Cultures (2009), and has published in Aporia, undergraduate philosophy journal. For the spring of 2011 he has received a grant for dissertation research in Salamanca, Spain, to investigate the topics of religious rights, just war, and the limits of toleration among sixteenth-century Spanish theologians and jurists.

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