Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics
3 Volume Set
1. Edition July 2022
1600 Pages, Hardcover
Handbook/Reference Book
A comprehensive, innovative, and authoritative view of moral inquiry engaged with the resources of the world's religions
Encompassing three comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics introduces fundamental issues in moral inquiry, explores the world's major moral traditions, and surveys specific moral issues across a wide range of human experiences. This landmark work defines the meaning, task, and various forms of religious ethics to guide readers through critical inquiry of religious and moral life across historical periods, geography, and cultural traditions. The Encyclopedia features contributions by an extraordinary panel of ethicists, historians, theologians, philosophers, political theorists, and other experts that draw from and revise religious sources to explore basic themes in moral theory and address contemporary ethical and political problems.
Each volume is devoted to a particular element of religious ethics. Volume I - Moral Inquiry helps readers understand diverse religious and moral traditions, the social practices and institutions used for their transmission, and the methods and approaches used for their comparison. Volume II - Moral Tradition describes the established historical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Indian religions, Chinese religions, African religions, and religions of the Americas. Volume III - Moral Issues provides the conceptual resources for understanding the structures, conditions, and challenges of a wide range of moral issues that religious ethicists have engaged, and for appreciating the contributions of different scholars in the field. Unique in its topical depth and scope, the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics:
* Provides diverse historical, contemporary, theoretical, and cultural perspectives on numerous religious and moral traditions
* Represents the richness of thought of a vast range of renowned scholars from various disciplines, traditions, and cultures
* Examines some of the most significant theories, approaches, and concepts that have been used to compare traditions of religious ethics
* Discusses recent developments in religious and moral life and new approaches to the study of religious ethics
* Introduces practices in current religious communities that address the various dimensions of the moral life
Dedicated to understanding and addressing moral challenges and possibilities in our global times, the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the relation between religion and ethics in the modern world, including those involved in general and comparative religious studies, religious and comparative ethics, and moral theory.
Preface
Introduction
On Religious Ethics
Reflection
Moral Knowledge
Moral Theories
Moral Truth
Norms, Values, and Metaphysics
God and Morality
Non-theistic Ethics
Language and Morality
Embodied Knowledge
Reason, Emotion, Ethics
Feminist Epistemologies
Natural Law
Divine Command
Moral Formation
Authority and Religious Experience
Ideas of Excellence
Agents and Moral Formation
Moral Development
Desire and Will
Perception
Love and Compassion
Practical Reasoning and Moral Casuistry
Virtue
Consequentialism
Deontology
Responsibility
Value Theory
Alterity
Discourse
Transmission
Texts
Text and Canon
Hermeneutics
Contested Canons and Counter-Traditions
Revelation and Authorship
Institutions
Law and Religion
Schools and Monasteries
Communications and Media
Practices
Practices
Francis X.Clooney
Theories of Practice
Performance/Liturgy
Reading/Recitation/Memorization
Pilgrimage
Meditation as an Ethical Practice
Asceticism and Self-Cultivation
Comparison
Theories
Comparison in Religious Ethics
Comparison as a Discipline
Religious Ethics and Religious Studies
Secularism
Post-secularism
Approaches
History of Religions
Culture and Moral Pluralism
Conceptual
Ethnographic
Pragmatism
Concepts
Cosmology
Ritual
Saints and Exemplars
Cosmogony and Eschatology
Myth
Nature and Human Nature
Soteriology and Enlightenment
Volume II: Moral Traditions
Preface
Introduction
On Religious Ethics
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Judaism
Jewish Ethics?
Foundations of Jewish Ethics
Ethics Differentiated from the Law
From Law to Ethics... and Back
Christianity
Christian Ethics
Origins of Christian Ethics
Differentiation in Christian Ethics
Trajectories in Christian Ethics
Islam
Islamic Ethics?
Origins of Islamic Ethics
Islamic Ethics: Differentiations
Muslim Ethical Trajectories in the Contemporary Period
Buddhism
Buddhist Ethics?
Origins of Buddhist Ethics
Cultural Differentiation in Buddhist Ethics
Buddhist Ethics: Trajectories
Indian Religions
Hindu Ethics?
Origins of Hindu Ethics
Differentiations in Hindu Ethics
Trajectories of Hindu Ethics
Chinese Religions
Chinese Ethics?
Origins of Chinese Ethics
Differentiations
Trajectories of Chinese Religious Ethics
African Religions
African Ethics?
Origins of African Ethics
Differentiations in African Ethics
Trajectories in African Ethics
Religions of the Americas
Indigenous Peoples
Origins (Religions of the Americas)
Modes of Interpretation (Religions of the Americas)
Global Interactions (Religions of the Americas)
Contemporary and Cultural Perspectives
Practices and Communities
Practices and Communities (Christianity)
Practices and Communities (Islam)
Practices and Communities (Indian Religions)
Practices and Communities (Chinese Religions)
Practices and Communities (African Religions)
Modes of Interpretation
Modes of Interpretation (Judaism)
Modes of Interpretation (Christianity)
Modes of Interpretation (Islam)
Modes of Interpretation (Buddhism)
Modes of Interpretation (Indian Religions)
Modes of Interpretation (African Religions)
Modes of Interpretation (Chinese Religions)
Global Interactions
Global Interactions (Christianity)
Global Interactions (Islam)
Global Interactions (Buddhism)
Global Interactions (African Religions)
Global Interactions (Indian Religions)
Volume III
Preface
Introduction
On Religious Ethics
Persons
Structures and Conditions
Health
Body Culture
Aesthetic Experience and Ethics
Children
Joy and Laughter
Play/Recreation/Sport
Personhood
Pleasure and Pain
Reproduction
Subject Formation/Subjectivity
Challenges
Ability and Disability
Class
Disease and Decay
Home and Homelessness
Moral Struggle
Trans-humanism and Post-humanism
Violence
Structures and Conditions
Nations
Economics
Human Rights
Ethics, Images, and Things
Corporations
Education
Law
Non-governmental Organizations
Religious Institutions
Challenges
Science
Challenges
Ecology
Global Dynamics
Technology
Animal Ethics
Justice
Production and Consumption
Sustainability and Climate Change
Communities
Structures and Conditions
Religious Membership
Future Generations
Ecumenism
Family
Inter-species communities
Labor and Trade
Marriage
New Religious Movements
Peace-keeping
Challenges
Religion and Religious War
Censorship, Disclosure, Privacy
Civil Rights and Protest Movements
Domestic Violence
Gender Discrimination
Genocide
Racial Discrimination
Religious Discrimination
Torture
War and Non-state Group Violence
Maria Antonaccio is Professor of Religious Studies and Director, Bucknell Humanities Center, Bucknell University, USA. She is the author of Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch, A Philosophy to Live By: Engaging Iris Murdoch, Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness (with William Schweiker).
Elizabeth Bucar is Professor of Religion, Northeastern University, USA. She is the author of three books, including Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress and Religious Ethics in a Time of Globalism: Shaping a Third Wave of Comparative Analysis.
David Clairmont is Associate Professor of Moral Theology and Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the co-editor of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and the author of Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics: On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological Contexts.
