Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global EthicsThis 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.
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Contents
Ancient Stories and Postmodern | 5 |
Stories of War and Peace in an Age of Globalization | 41 |
Ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima 77 | 85 |
from the Birth of Ethics to | 100 |
Hindu Stories Ancient and Postmodern | 137 |
Buddhist Stories Ancient and Postmodern | 165 |
Jewish Stories Ancient and Postmodern | 205 |
Christian Stories Ancient and Postmodern | 234 |
Islamic Stories Ancient and Postmodern | 262 |
The Path to Global Ethics the | 297 |
Feminist Audacity and the Ethics of Interdependence | 300 |
the Way of All the Earth | 327 |
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