Title: Ethical issues in six religious traditions /
Authors: Lawton, Clive.; Morgan, Peggy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Religious ethics Comparative studies; Religions; Ethics.; Religion and ethics.; Religious ethics.
Abstract: How do Hindus view euthanasia? Is there a 'Sikh view' of advertising? Do Jews and Muslims share the same attitude to marriage? How do Christian and Buddhist views on the environment differ? This book draws together authors respected in six traditions to explore in parallel the ethical foundations for Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths. Each section introduces a different religion and asks specific, topical questions, set in a wider context. The issues addressed are religious identity and authority; the personal and the private; marriage and family; influences on and use.
Contents: section A. Hinduism / Werner Menski -- 1. Religious identity and authority -- On being a Hindu -- Authority -- Authority figures in the faith -- Duties of leaders -- Duties of subjects and citizens -- 2. Personal and private? -- Personal qualities -- Friendship -- Sex before marriage -- Homosexuality -- HIV/AIDS -- 3. Marriage and the family -- The meaning of marriage -- Family relationships -- Marriage breakdown -- 4. Influences on the use of time, money and other personal resources -- Education -- Work -- Leisure and its use -- Wealth -- Drugs -- The media -- Advertising -- 5. The quality and value of life -- The elderly -- Those in need -- Reproduction -- Abortion -- Euthanasia -- Vegetarianism -- 6. Questions of right and wrong -- The purpose of law -- Sin and sins -- Punishments -- The wrongdoer and the wronged -- 7. Equality and difference -- Differences between people -- Attitudes to other religions -- Attitudes to ethnic and national diversity -- Women and men -- Are all people equal? -- 8. Conflict and violence -- Why does conflict exist? -- Why do different nations exist? -- National and ethnic conflict -- 'Just war'? -- Contemporary challenges -- Social and domestic violence -- 9. Global issues -- Responses to world poverty -- Responses to population control -- Planet earth and ecology -- 10. Glossary -- Bibliography -- Addresses --