Life Ethics in World Religions

by Dawne McCance (Editor)

A collection of ten essays explaining ethical positions in major religions on such issues as sexuality and sexual difference, contraception and reproduction, death and dying, and ecology and warfare. In addition to the standard Buddhist, Hindu, Judaism, existential Christianity, and Islam, they include goddess religions and aboriginal philosophies. Two consider feminist challenges to ethics and religious responses to global ethical issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Dawne McCance is Distinguished Professor and former Head, Department of Religion, University of Manitoba, and Editor of Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature. She teaches and writes on the work of Jacques Derrida, for example in Medusa’s Ear (SUNY Press, 2004), a study of his writing on the modern research university.