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This book contains essays on current projects from several rising figures in religious ethics, collected into a field-shaping anthology of new work. As a whole, the book argues that religious ethics should make cultural and moral diversity central to its analysis. This can include three main aspects, in various combinations: first, describing and interpreting particular ethics on the basis of historical, anthropological, or other data; second, comparing such ethics (in the plural), which requires rigorous reflection on the methods and tools of inquiry; and third, engaging in normative argument on the basis of such studies, and thereby speaking to particular moral controversies, as well as contemporary concerns about overlapping identities, cultural complexity and plurality, universalism and relativism, and political problems regarding the coexistence of divergent groups.

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Introduction: The Third Wave of Comparative Religious Ethics - Elizabeth M. Bucar and Aaron Stalnaker Ethical Formation and Ordinary Life in the Modern West - Thomas A. Lewis Bodies at the Margins: The Comparative Case of Transsexuality - Elizabeth M. Bucar Engendering Martyrs: Muslim Mothers and Martyrdom - Irene Oh Cultures of Comparison and Traditions of Scholarship: Holism and Inculturation in Religious Ethics - David Clairmont Three Challenges in the Study of Comparative Ethics and Chinese Thought - Erin Cline Exploring The Korean First Birthday Celebration (Dol Janchi) as a Site for Comparative Religious Ethics and Asian American Christian Ethics - Grace Y. Kao Mastery, Authority, and Hierarchy in the ´Inner Chapters´ of the Zhu?ngzi - Aaron Stalnaker Afterword: Tsunami or ´Third Wave´? - Donald K. Swearer

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"The volume is an ongoing conversation within and between the chapters regarding the nature and scope of comparative religious ethics in the field of study. As a valuable contextualization and overview of current scholarship, this book is suitable for advanced undergraduates and ideal for graduate students and teacher-scholars in the field." (Bruce Grelle, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 42 (3), September, 2016)

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ELIZABETH BUCAR Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA DAVID CLAIRMONT Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA ERIN CLINE Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, USA GRACE KAO Associate Professor, Claremont Graduate University, USA THOMAS A. LEWIS Vartan Gregorian Associate Professor, Brown University, USA IRENE OH Assistant Professor, George Washington University, USA AARON STALNAKER Associate Professor, Indiana University, USA

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