What is Religious Ethics?

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What is Religious Ethics?

An Introduction

Ethics and moral philosophy Comparative religion

Author: Irene Oh

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Collection: What is this thing called Religion?

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 30th December 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781000815788


What is Religious Ethics? An Introduction is an accessible and informative overview to major themes and methods in religious ethics. This concise and lively book demonstrates the relevance and importance of ethics based in religious traditions and describes how scholars of religious ethics think through moral problems.

Combining an issues-based approach with a model of studying ethics religion-by-religion, this volume examines pressing topics through a variety of belief systems—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism—while also importantly spotlighting Indigenous communities. Engaging case studies invite readers to consider the role of religions with regard to issues such as:

CRISPR

Vegetarianism

Nuclear weapons

Women’s leadership

Reparations for slavery

What is Religious Ethics? is a reliable and easily digestible introduction to the field. With chronologically structured chapters, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and interviews with scholars of religious ethics, this is an ideal guide to those approaching the study of religious ethics for the first time.

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