The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics

Blackwell Companions to Religion

by William Schweiker (Editor)

Written by internationally renowned scholars, this Companion maps the moral teachings of the world’s religions, and also charts new directions for work in the field of religious ethics.

Genres: Religion

Hardcover

First published December 16, 2004

About the author

William Schweiker is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago. Born in Des Moines, Iowa (1953) he holds degrees from Simpson College, Duke University and also the University of Chicago. Besides teaching at Chicago, he has also been guest professor at Uppsala University and the University of Heidelberg. Schweiker´s writings engage theological and ethical questions attentive to global dynamics, comparative religious ethics, the history of ethics, and hermeneutical philosophy. Schweiker has published five books, numerous articles and award-winning essays, as well as edited and contributed to six volumes, including A Companion to Religious Ethics (2004), a comprehensive and innovative work in the field of comparative religious ethics. He has a forthcoming book on Christian faith and new humanisms and is also currently working on a volume Religious Ethics: An Introduction. On-going research is for a book on theological ethics and the integrity of life.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Pyjov]

John Ross Carter, “Buddhist Ethics”, Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, 278-285.
Damien Keown, “Origins of Buddhist Ethics, Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, 286-296.