COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL ... - Boston College

Essays on a variety of topics and from a variety of religious and historical points of view
(Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist, Islamic, etc.)
Carman, John, and Juergensmeyer, Mark, eds. A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of
Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Reveiwed by John Kelsay in Theological Studies 53 (1992): 576-578.
Carmody, Denise Lardner, and Carmody, John Tully. How to Live Well: Ethics in the World
Religions. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1988.
Intended as an undergraduate textbook, the work is organized into two major sections,
Western Religious Ethics and Eastern Religious Ethics. The former considers Jewish,
Christian, and Islamic ethics, while the latter takes up Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, and
Japanese ethics.
. Peace and Justice in the Scriptures of the World Religions: Reflections on Non-Christian
Scriptures. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.
Claude, Richard P., ed. Comparative Human Rights. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1976.
Cohn-Sherbok, Rabbi Dan, ed. World Religions and Human Liberation. Maryknoll: Orbis Press,
1992.
Contributions on the liberation theme from a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and an African-
American.
Cook, John W. Morality and Cultural Differences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Argues that a discussion of moral relativism needs to investigate both the philosophical and
anthropological aspects. Cook argues that both sides of the debate fail to prove their
respective positions because their views of “morality” are artificial and unrealistic.
Cortese, Anthony. Ethnic Ethics. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.
Also considers Kohlberg.
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