Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, 3 Volume Set

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.

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• Volume I: Moral EnquiryPrefaceIntroductionOn Religious EthicsReflectionMoral KnowledgeMoral TheoriesMoral TruthNorms, Values, and MetaphysicsGod and MoralityNon-theistic EthicsLanguage and MoralityEmbodied KnowledgeReason, Emotion, EthicsFeminist EpistemologiesNatural LawDivine CommandMoral FormationAuthority and Religious ExperienceIdeas of ExcellenceAgents and Moral FormationMoral DevelopmentDesire and WillPerceptionLove and CompassionPractical Reasoning and Moral CasuistryVirtueConsequentialismDeontologyResponsibilityValue TheoryAlterityDiscourseTransmissionTextsText and CanonHermeneuticsContested Canons and Counter-TraditionsRevelation and AuthorshipInstitutionsLaw and ReligionSchools and MonasteriesCommunications and MediaPracticesPracticesFrancis X.ClooneyTheories of PracticePerformance/LiturgyReading/Recitation/MemorizationPilgrimageMeditation as an Ethical PracticeAsceticism and Self-CultivationComparisonTheoriesComparison in Religious EthicsComparison as a DisciplineReligious Ethics and Religious StudiesSecularismPost-secularismApproachesHistory of ReligionsCulture and Moral PluralismConceptualEthnographicPragmatismConceptsCosmologyRitualSaints and ExemplarsCosmogony and EschatologyMythNature and Human NatureSoteriology and Enlightenment  Volume II: Moral TraditionsPrefaceIntroductionOn Religious EthicsHistorical and Theoretical PerspectivesJudaismJewish Ethics?Foundations of Jewish EthicsEthics Differentiated from the LawFrom Law to Ethics… and BackChristianityChristian EthicsOrigins of Christian EthicsDifferentiation in Christian EthicsTrajectories in Christian EthicsIslamIslamic Ethics?Origins of Islamic EthicsIslamic Ethics: DifferentiationsMuslim Ethical Trajectories in the Contemporary PeriodBuddhismBuddhist Ethics?Origins of Buddhist EthicsCultural Differentiation in Buddhist EthicsBuddhist Ethics: TrajectoriesIndian ReligionsHindu Ethics?Origins of Hindu EthicsDifferentiations in Hindu EthicsTrajectories of Hindu EthicsChinese ReligionsChinese Ethics?Origins of Chinese EthicsDifferentiationsTrajectories of Chinese Religious EthicsAfrican ReligionsAfrican Ethics?Origins of African EthicsDifferentiations in African EthicsTrajectories in African EthicsReligions of the AmericasIndigenous PeoplesOrigins (Religions of the Americas)Modes of Interpretation (Religions of the Americas)Global Interactions (Religions of the Americas)Contemporary and Cultural PerspectivesPractices and CommunitiesPractices and Communities (Christianity)Practices and Communities (Islam)Practices and Communities (Indian Religions)Practices and Communities (Chinese Religions)Practices and Communities (African Religions)Modes of InterpretationModes 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 InteractionsGlobal Interactions (Christianity)Global Interactions (Islam)Global Interactions (Buddhism)Global Interactions (African Religions)Global Interactions (Indian Religions)  Volume IIIPrefaceIntroductionOn Religious EthicsPersonsStructures and ConditionsHealthBody CultureAesthetic Experience and EthicsChildrenJoy and LaughterPlay/Recreation/SportPersonhoodPleasure and PainReproductionSubject Formation/SubjectivityChallengesAbility and DisabilityClassDisease and DecayHome and HomelessnessMoral StruggleTrans-humanism and Post-humanismViolenceStructures and ConditionsNationsEconomicsHuman RightsEthics, Images, and ThingsCorporationsEducationLawNon-governmental OrganizationsReligious InstitutionsChallengesScienceChallengesEcologyGlobal DynamicsTechnologyAnimal EthicsJusticeProduction and ConsumptionSustainability and Climate ChangeCommunitiesStructures and ConditionsReligious MembershipFuture GenerationsEcumenismFamilyInter-species communitiesLabor and TradeMarriageNew Religious MovementsPeace-keepingChallengesReligion and Religious WarCensorship, Disclosure, PrivacyCivil Rights and Protest MovementsDomestic ViolenceGender DiscriminationGenocideRacial DiscriminationReligious DiscriminationTortureWar and Non-state Group Violence