Comparative Religious Ethics (Critical Concepts in Religious Studies) (1ST ed.)

Marc Notes:
The aim is not simply to gather together a number of pieces, but - with the appropriate modesty and tentativeness - to offer one picture of how the field of comparative religious ethics ought to understand itself: its past, present, and its future. A critical mass of scholars has now emerged in this area, and the institutional dynamics of religious studies departments, which are increasingly seeing the attractions of classes in 'comparative ethics, ' are favourable as well. By gathering together both 'classic' statements, exemplifying paradigmatic approaches in the field, and recent, ground-breaking and innovative works, the ambition is to make this collection the gold standard for anyone working on the field of comparative religious ethics in coming decades

Table of Contents:
Volume I Comparative Religious Ethics: Defining a Field by Comparison, Volume II The 'Human' in Comparative Religious Ethics, Volume III Meaning and Understanding in Comparative Religious Ethics, Volume IV Practical Ethics and Everyday Life

Biographical Note:
Charles Mathewes; Matthew Puffer; Mark Storslee

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No collection of this sort has yet been conceived of, let alone accomplished, in this field. In part that may well be due to the extraordinarily nascent character of the field of comparative religious ethics, described as that (as opposed to Christian ethics, for example). Yet the aim is not simply to gather together a number of pieces, but -- with the appropriate modesty and tentativeness -- to offer one picture of how the field ought to understand itself: its past, present, and perhaps its future. A critical mass of scholars has now emerged in this area, and the institutional dynamics of religious studies departments, which are increasingly seeing the attractions of classes in "comparative ethics," are favorable as well.

By gathering together both "classic" statements, exemplifying paradigmatic approaches in the field, and recent, ground-breaking and innovative works, the ambition is to make this collection the gold standard for anyone working on the field of comparative religious ethics in coming decades.