Christine Gudorf is at the forefront of rendering comparative
religious beliefs meaningful for students, especially in the area of
ethics. No teacher is better situated to explain the source and value
of religious belief for ethical conduct and to provide insight and
wisdom for the range of moral responses.Gudorf’s work focuses on
common, everyday issues—including food and diet, work, sex and
marriage, proper dress, anger and violence, charity, family, and
infirmity and the elderly—while drawing out ethical implications of
each and demonstrating how different religious traditions prescribe
rules for action. An introductory chapter reviews standard ethical
theory and core elements of comparative religious analysis. Each
chapter opens with a riveting real-life case and shows how religious
ethics can shed light on how to handle the larger issues, without
determining for the reader what a proper ethical response might
be.Helpful summaries, questions, and list of readings, along with
special chapter features, charts and photographs and a glossary, makes
this new text most suitable for the wide array of courses in
comparative religious ethics.
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ISBN
9781451426212
Publisert
2016
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Fortress Press NBN
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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