The text places special emphasis on the ethical co-operation that emerged between religious traditions during the civil right-Vietnam war era.

Though others have surveyed the different methods in comparative religious ethics, relatively little attention has been given to different approaches to pedagogy. The field of comparative religious ethics has now reached a level of maturity so that there are a variety of ways such courses can be taught. In this review I consider the approaches to comparative religious ethics found in four recent texts by Jacob Neusner, Darrell Fasching and Dell deChant, Regina Wolfe and Christine Gudorf, and Sumner Twiss and (...) Bruce Grelle. In the essay I note the strengths and weaknesses of each text, with special attention given to how the texts might work in the classroom. I then argue that the different texts reflect different understandings of the goal of teaching comparative religious ethics, and I make these goals explicit in order to help teachers decide how they might approach the teaching in this growing field. (shrink)

Machine generated contents note: 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. (shrink)

Machine generated contents note: 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. (shrink)

Confronts the Janus-faced myth of technology as both the object of dread and the source of hope, which leads both to the demonic final solution and to the merciful, healing sacrifice.