RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE WEST: A PRIMER

Politics & Social Sciences

Dell DeChant

Social Sciences

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Religion & Spirituality

This popular textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent global developments, whilst retaining its unique and compelling narrative-style approach. Using ancient stories from diverse religions, it explores a broad range of important and complex moral issues, resulting in a truly reader-friendly and comparative introduction to religious ethics. <ul> <li>A thoroughly revised and expanded new edition of this popular textbook, yet retains the unique narrative-style approach which has proved so successful with students</li> <li>Considers the ways in which ancient stories from diverse religions, such as the Bhagavad Gita and the lives of Jesus and Buddha, have provided ethical orientation in the modern world</li> <li>Updated to reflect recent discussions on globalization and its influence on cross-cultural and comparative ethics, economic dimensions to ethics, Gandhian traditions, and global ethics in an age of terrorism</li> <li>Expands coverage of Asian religions, quest narratives, the religious and philosophical approach to ethics in the West, and considers Chinese influences on Thich Nhat Hanh's Zen Buddhism, and Augustine's Confessions</li> <li>Accompanied by an instructor's manual (coming soon, see <a href="http://www.wiley.com/go/fasching">www.wiley.com/go/fasching</a>) which shows how to use the book in conjunction with contemporary films</li> </ul>

Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics

Darrell J. Fasching

David M. Lantigua

Wiley/Blackwell

Religion and Culture in the West: A Primer offers an introduction to the relationship of religion and culture in the West and reviews some of the ways this relationship may be understood. 
Religion and Culture in the West: A Primer:
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<li>presents a wide variety of approaches to the topic and differing interpretations. </li>
<li>defines basic technical terms, explicates major theories, and highlights central issues. </li>
<li>aims to fill several small but distinct gaps in literature. </li>
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Religion and Culture in the West: A Primer

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