Comparative Religious Ethics: Everyday Decisions for Our Everyday Lives

by Christine E. Gudorf

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2013

Overview

Non-Christian ethical beliefs and practices have created profound social change, making the study of comparative religious ethics more important than ever. Christine Gudorf draws out the profound ethical implications of diverse religious beliefs by focusing on common, everyday issues: food and diet; sex and marriage; anger and violence; infirmity and the elderly; work; proper dress; charity; family; and more. Through these diverse situations, she demonstrates how different religious traditions prescribe different rules for action. Each chapter opens with a riveting real-life case study and shows how religious ethics can shed light on how to handle larger issues—while allowing readers to determine the proper ethical response. Complete with summaries, questions, reading lists, charts, photographs, and a glossary, Gudorf’s introduction is an ideal resource for anyone studying comparative religious ethics.

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Key Features

• Draws out the ethical implications of diverse religious beliefs
• Focuses on everyday aspects of human life
• Demonstrates how different religious beliefs lead to different ethical courses of action
• Includes summaries, questions, reading lists, charts, photographs, and a glossary

Contents

• Comparative Religious Ethics and the Contemporary Search for Meaning
• Ethics and Spirituality in Religion
• Religions on Food, Fasting, and Feasting
• Religions on Making Work Human
• Religions on Body Covering, Appearance, and Identity
• Religions on Sexuality and Marriage
• Religions on Making and Keeping Families
• Religions on Anger and Violence
• Religions on Charity and Beggars

Praise for the Print Edition

Christine Gudorf has done it again. With Comparative Religious Ethics, she has made another scholarly, but at the same time extraordinarily lucid and engaging, contribution to the growing field of comparative ethics.

—Paul F. Knitter, Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions, and Culture, Union Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: Comparative Religious Ethics: Everyday Decisions for Our Everyday Lives
• Author: Christine E. Gudorf
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious ethics › Comparative studies
• ISBNs: 9780800698614, 9781451426212, 0800698614, 1451426216
• Resource ID: LLS:CMPRTVRLGSTHCS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:50:17Z

About Christine E. Gudorf

Christine E. Gudorf is professor of religious studies at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She is past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and was on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. She is the author of Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach, and coeditor of Ethics in World Religions: A Cross-Cultural Casebook.