Religious Ethics in a Time of Globalism

Shaping a Third Wave of Comparative Analysis

E. Bucar, A. Stalnaker, E. Bucar, A. Stalnaker

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781137273024
• eBook ISBN: 9781137273031
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

This book contains essays on current projects from several rising figures in religious ethics, collected into a field-shaping anthology of new work. As a whole, the book argues that religious ethics should make cultural and moral diversity central to its analysis. This can include three main aspects, in various combinations: first, describing and interpreting particular ethics on the basis of historical, anthropological, or other data; second, comparing such ethics (in the plural), which requires rigorous reflection on the methods and tools of inquiry; and third, engaging in normative argument on the basis of such studies, and thereby speaking to particular moral controversies, as well as contemporary concerns about overlapping identities, cultural complexity and plurality, universalism and relativism, and political problems regarding the coexistence of divergent groups.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Third Wave of Comparative Religious Ethics
• 1 Ethical Formation and Ordinary Life in the Modern West: The Case of Work
• 2 Bodies at the Margins: The Comparative Case of Transsexuality
• 3 Engendering Martyrs: Muslim Mothers and Martyrdom
• 4 Cultures of Comparison and Traditions of Scholarship: Holism and Inculturation in Religious Ethics
• 5 Three Challenges in the Study of Comparative Ethics and Chinese Thought
• 6 Exploring the Korean First Birthday Celebration (Dol Janchi) as a Site for Comparative Religious Ethicsand Asian American Christian Ethics
• 7 Mastery, Authority, and Hierarchy in the “Inner Chapters” of the Zhuangzi
• Afterword: Tsunami or “Third Wave”?
• Notes on Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index
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