Ethics in the world religions / edited by Joseph Runzo and Nancy M. Martin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethical Issues across Religious Traditions. "That was then ...": debating nonviolence withing the textual traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher -- From agape to organs, religious difference between Japan and America in judging the ethics of the transplant / William R. LaFleur -- Doggen loyalties, a classical Indian intervention in care ethics / Vrinda Dalmiya -- Global views of religious ethics. Christian social ethics in a global context / Brian Hebblethwaite -- Confucian cosmology and ecological ethics, qi, li, and the role of the human / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Multiplism: a Jaina ethics of toleration for a complex world / C. Ram-Prasad.

Introduction, inter-religious understanding / Nancy M. Martin -- Religion and ethics. Being religious and doing ethics in a global world / Joseph Runzo -- Religion and the possibility of a global ethics / Keith Ward -- Religious moral diversity and relationships / James Kellenberger -- Ethics and religion in the West. Doing the right and the good, fundamental convictions and methods of Jewish ethics / Elliot N. Dorff -- Islamic ethics and gender issues / Zayn Kassam -- The evolutionary self in Christian and philosophical perspectives / Nathan Tierney -- The leveling of meaning, Christian ethics in a culture of unconcern / Philip Rossi -- Ethics and religion in Asia. Hindu ethics and Dharma / Vasudha Narayanan -- Pushing the boundaries of personal ethics, the practice of Jaina vows / Christopher Key Chapple -- Practices of perfection, the ethical aim of Mahayana Buddhism / Dale S. Wright -- Confucianism, concern and civility / John H. Berthrong --