A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics

by John Carman, Mark Jürgensmeyer

Overview

This bibliography is the culmination of four years' work by a team of noted scholars; its annotated entries are organized by religious tradition and cover each tradition's central concepts, offering a judicious selection of primary and secondary works as well as recommendations of cross-cultural topics to be explored. Specialists in the history and literature of religions and comparative religion will find this bibliography a valuable research tool.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521093262
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/11/2009
Pages:	820
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: a global map of ethical traditions Mark Juergensmeyer; 1. Hindu ethics Barbara A. Holdrege; 2. Indian, Tibetan and Southeast Asian Buddhist ethics Douglas Renfrew Brooks; 3. Ancient Chinese ethics Christopher Cleary; 4. Chinese Buddhist ethics Kyoko Tokuno; 5. Taoist ethics Terry F. Kleeman; 6. Neo-Confucian religious ethics Thomas W. Selover; 7. Ethics in the Japanese religious tradition William Deal; 8. Ancient Greek religious ethics William J. Cassidy III; 9. Jewish ethics Samuel S. Wineburg; 10. Early Christian ethics Jozef M. L. Van Gerwen; 11. Medieval Christian ethics Dianne M. Bazell; 12. Early modern Christian ethics: the Reformation period Valerie DeMarinis; 13. Modern Christian ethics Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez; 14. The ethics of Muslims: Islamic and Islamicate ethics Kevin Reinhart; 15. Modern Western philosophical ethics Russell F. Sizemore and John F. Kilner; Appendices.

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