Comparative religious ethics: a narrative approach to global ethics

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 Hanhs Zen Buddhism, and Augustines Confessions Accompanied by an instructors manual which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporary films INDICE: Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I Religion, Ethics, And Stories Of War And Peace. 1 Religion, Ethics, And Storytelling. Storytelling: from Comparative Ethics to Global Ethics. Religion: the Sacred and the Holy. Religion andthe Deep Structures of the Sacred and the Holy and their Mediations. The Awakening of Ethical Consciousness: the Power of Religious Stories, East and West.The Great Religious Stories of the World an Overview. A Postscript on Religious Language. Questions for Discussion. Sources. 2 Stories Of War And Peace In An Age Of Globalization. Overview. Tales of Demonic Madness: from Auschwitz toHiroshima. Auschwitz and Hiroshima: the Formative Religious Events of the Postmodern World. Techno-bureaucratic Rationality and the Demise of Ethical Consciousness Doubling and the Myth of Life through Death: the Spiritual Logic of Mass Death in the Twentieth Century. The Way of All the Earth: Global Ethics and Tales of Divine Madness Questions for Discussion. Sources. PART II War And Peace: Ancient Stories And Postmodern Life Stories Introduction: Ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima. 3 Gilgamesh And The Religious Quest. The Story of Gilgamesh: the Crises of Morality, Mortality, and Meaning Urbanization, Doubling, Death, and the Possibility of Ethical Reflection. The Quest the Way of the Virtues. Questions for Discussion. Sources. 4 The Socratic Religious Experience: From The Birth Of Ethics To The Quest For Cosmopolis. The Story of the Trial of Socrates. The Socratic Invention of Ethics the Way of Doubt. The Polis and the Quest for Cosmopolis: the Classical Era. The Story of Augustine's Confessions Faith as a Surrender to Doubt. The SocraticAugustinian Quest for a Global Ethic. Questions for Discussion. Sources. 5 Hindu Stories Ancient And Postmodern. Cosmic Story: the Myth of Liberation. Formative Story: Arjuna and Krishna. Life Story: Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Way of Brahmacharya. Comparative Reflections: the Paradoxes of War and Peace. Questions for Discussion. Sources. 6 Buddhist Stories Ancient And Postmodern. Formative Story: Siddhartha. The CosmicStory Revised: the Myth of Liberation. Life Story: Thich Nhat Hanh, the Way of Mindfulness and the Dao of Zen. Comparative Reflections: Gandhi and Thich Nhat Hanh. Postscript: the Virtues of the Quest in Gilgamesh, Augustine, and Siddhartha. Questions for Discussion. Sources. 7 Jewish Stories Ancient And Postmodern. Cosmic Story: the Myth of History. Formative Story: the Audacity of Job. Life Story: Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Way of Audacity. Comparative Reflections: Heschel, Gandhi, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Questions for Discussion. Sources. 8 Christian Stories Ancient And Postmodern. Formative Story: Jesus of Nazareth. The Cosmic Story Revised: the Incarnation of the Word. Life Story: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Way of the Cross. Comparative Reflections: King, He

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3133-2
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 376
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés