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Jaya Jinendra

RELIGIOUS ETHICS : A SOURCEBOOK
Ed.and Intro. by Professor Arthur Dobrin
Mumbai: Hindi Granth Karyalay
2004 220 x 145 mm 400 pp
81-88769-01-0 Hardback Rs. 495

Religious Ethics: A Sourcebook, collected and edited by
Dr. Arthur Dobrin, presents the responses from 34 religions
and religious denominations on some of today's key moral
issues. From Baha'i to Jainism to Zoroastrianism, religious
leaders and thinkers representing his or her own religion
answer 55 questions about the nature of being ethical to
matters of the use of force. There are explanations about the
morality of sex and other issues of personal behaviour.

This book, the first of its kind, gives the reader a handy
cross -reference to compare the ethical and moral positions
of various religions. Some of the questions addressed in this
book are:
What does it mean to be a good person?
What is the source of ethics?
Is killing ever justified?
Is abortion allowed?
Is genetic engineering acceptable?
Should homosexual marriages be allowed by the state?
Is smoking allowed?

Arthur Dobrin, Professor of Humanities at Hofstra
University in New York, teaches courses in religious ethics
and the psychology of ethics, as well as courses in literature.
He is the author and editor of 20 books, including poetry,
novels and short stories. He is also the Leader Emeritus of the
Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island where he served for
33 years.

The book has been dedicated to Pandit Nathuram Premi.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION 1
Arthur Dobrin

BAHA'I 29
Jonah Winters, et al

BUDDHISM 83
Mahayana - Kelsang Togden
Theravada - Pongpun Saovaphudhasuvej

CHRISTIANITY 104
Anglican / Episcopalian - Sthephen White
Baptist - Michael Hale
Eastern Orthodox - Stanley Harakas
Jehovah's Witness - Writing Staff
Lutheran - Thomas Prieto Paral
Methodist - Beth LaRocca-Pitts
Pentecostal - David K. Bernard
Presbyterian - E.M. Myers
Roman Catholic - Ralph Gallagher
Seventh Day Adventist - Sednak Yankson

CONFUCIANISM 188
Whalen Lai

HINDUISM 198
Saivite - Saivasiva Palanisvami
Vaishnavite - Venkat Kanumalla

HUMANISM 216
Ethical Culture - Joseph Chuman
Unitarian Universalist - Pat Hoertdoerfer

ISLAM 233
Sunni - Rasheed Abdulkareem
Shi'a - Moustafa Al-Qawzini
Ismaili Bohra - Mustafa Abdulhussein
Nation of Islam - Hamid Mohammed

JAINISM 265
Duli Chandra Jain

JUDAISM 292
Conservative - Michael Katz
Orthodox - Moshe BenChaim

SCIENTOLOGY 313
Lynn Robert Farny

SHINTO 325
Shrine - Ueda Kenji
Sect - Yoshiye Abe
Shinreikyo - Kazuhiko Hosokawa

SIKHISM 342
Arvindpal Singh Mandair

TAOISM 363
Yun Xiang Tseng

VODOUN 369
Vivian Dansi Hounon

WICCAN 376
Michael Thorn

ZOROASTRIANISM 384
Khurshed Pastakia

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