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John P. Reeder, Jr., was Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He works principally in Western ethics and Christian thought, with comparative interests in Judaic and Buddhist thought. His major areas of interest include moral concepts such as justice, love, and care; moral difference and concepts of a common morality; theories of religion and morality; and moral issues such as abortion and reproduction, hunger, war, and euthanasia. He has edited and contributed to two volumes with Gene Outka:
Religion and Morality (Doubleday, 1973) and Prospects for a Common Morality (Princeton, 1993). He has published
Source, Sanction, and Salvation: Religion and Morality in Judaic and Christian Traditions (Prentice-Hall, 1988) and
Killing and Saving: Abortion, Hunger, and War (Penn State, 1996). He is at work presently in four areas: methodological essays on religion and morality; justice and love; common morality, secularism, and politics; and terrorism and torture. He taught an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers with Donald
Swearer (Justice and Compassion in Buddhist and Christian Traditions), and he has been a visiting professor at Yale (1979), Princeton
(1996-97), and Amherst College (1984-85), where he was the Henry Luce Professor of Comparative Religious Ethics. He returned to Amherst in
2003-04 as Visiting Professor. He currently serves as an associate editor of the
Journal of Religious Ethics.
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