Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics - (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion) by William Schweiker (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

A Companion to Religious Ethics is a rich resource for understanding the moral teachings and practices of the world's religions.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first section on moral inquiry covers concepts and theories in ethics, the means whereby religions transmit morals, and the issues involved in comparing different religions. The second section takes an in-depth look at particular moral traditions, discussing the origins, history, and potential future directions of each one, as well as the relevance of ethical categories to various forms of religious thought. The final series of essays discusses 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.

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.

Review Quotes

"This volume is an extremely thorough and scholarly resource in religious ethics, containing comprehensive essays by fifty-seven scholars, some of them quite well known." (Religious Studies Review, June 2010)

"Edited by the superbly qualified Schweiker, this book contains 57 short articles by leading scholars of religious ethics ... The volume's goal of exhibiting the horizons of contemporary work in religious ethics is well achieved ... It serves also as a useful reference on the most studied traditions and on theoretical and practical issues. Highly recommended." Choice

About the Author

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.