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Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics

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Schweiker, William / Antonaccio, Maria / Bucar, Elizabeth / Clairmont, David A. (Editor)

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1. Edition July 2022
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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.

Volume I: Moral Enquiry

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
William Schweiker is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA. He is the author of several books including Mimetic Reflections; Responsibility and Christian Ethics; Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method (with David Clairmont). He is the chief editor and contributor to A Companion to Religious Ethics.

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.

W. Schweiker, University of Chicago; M. Antonaccio, Bucknell University, USA; E. Bucar, Northeastern University, USA; D. A. Clairmont, University of Notre Dame, USA