List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

On Religious Ethics.

PART I: MORAL INQUIRY.

PART II: MORAL TRADITIONS.

PART III: MORAL ISSUES.

Glossary.

Index

"This volume is an extremely thorough and scholarly resource in
religious ethics, containing comprehensive essays by fifty-seven
scholars, some of them quite well known." (Religious Studies
Review, June 2010)

"Edited by the superbly qualified Schweiker, this book
contains 57 short articles by leading scholars of religious ethics
... The volume's goal of exhibiting the horizons of
contemporary work in religious ethics is well achieved ... It
serves also as a useful reference on the most studied traditions
and on theoretical and practical issues. Highly recommended."
Choice

"One expects The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics to
be an inclusive and exhaustive treatment of the subject, but two
other characteristics make this a sterling and indispensable work
that deserves the widest readership. First, articles by a wide
range of outstanding and well-known scholars give the book an
impressive depth. Second, William Schweiker, as editor, has
provided a unifying focus for studying this vast and complex
field." Charles E. Curran, Southern Methodist
University



"Starting from its problematic title, this splendid collection
of essays by 70 authors ... offers far more than textbooks or
encyclopedias. Teachers working at A level and beyond will find
here the richest of resources; thoughtful sixth-formers will
discover something of the disciplined excitement that can accompany
genuine learning in an interdisciplinary and multi-tradition
context; those learning and teaching in higher education will value
this innovative, orderly, often provocative collection of essays."
British Journal of Religious Education

"The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics presents an
exciting vision of moral inquiry engaged with the fantastic
resources of the world's religions, open to other fields of
reflection on the human adventure, and dedicated to understanding
and addressing moral challenges and possibilities emergent in our
global times." Peter Double, University of Leeds

"This collection is an invaluable source for anyone
working in the field of moral theology, including intellectually
engaged pastors as well as scholars and students." Stephen
J. Pope, Boston College

William Schwieker is Director of the Martin Marty Center and Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. He is the author of Mimetic Reflections: A Study in Hermeneutics, Theology and Ethics (1990); Responsibility and Christian Ethics (1995); Power, Value and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age (1998); and Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds (2004). He has published numerous articles and award-winning essays, as well as edited and contributed to five volumes on moral theory and hermeneutics.

W. Schweiker, University of Chicago