Comparative Religious Ethics : a Narrative Approach to Global Ethics.

• Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics; Contents; 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; The 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 GlobalizationTales of Madness: from Auschwitz to Hiroshima; 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 QuestThe Story of Gilgamesh; 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 Augustinian-Kantian Quest for a Global Ethic; Questions for Discussion; Sources.
• 5 Hindu Stories: Ancient and PostmodernCosmic 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 Cosmic Story 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; Postcript: the Virtues of the Quest in Gilgamesh, Augustine, and Siddhartha.
• Questions for DiscussionSources; 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, Heschel, Gandhi, and Thich Nhat Hanh; Questions for Discussion.

• 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 studentsConsiders the ways in which ancient stories from diverse. 

Ämnesord

Religiös etik  (sao)

Religious ethics  -- Comparative studies. (LCSH)

Religious ethics.  (fast)

RELIGION  -- Christianity -- General. (bisacsh)

RELIGION  -- Ethics. (bisacsh)

Religious ethics  (lcsh)

Genre

Comparative studies.  (fast)

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

BJ1188.F35 2011 (LCC)

REL (ämneskategori)

REL (ämneskategori)

205 (DDC)

REL028000 (bisacsh)

Cm.05 (kssb/8 (machine generated))