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HDS 3409

Comparative Religious Ethics

Anne E. Monius

Description

Predicated on the assumption that global concerns are manifest in highly particularized cultural and religious circumstances, this course seeks to understand Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian framings of and prospective solutions to the problem of communal violence in the modern world. Topics examined in each tradition include: conceptions of moral subjectivity, frameworks for moral education, close reading of novels that grapple with the moral challenges (especially new forms of violence) wrought by colonization and globalization, and explicitly religious responses to such violence in the work of Gandhi, Buddhist monastic communities in Sri Lanka, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes
Jointly offered through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Moral Reasoning 76

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Scheduling

Half Course
Spring 2010
M., W., 11-12 and hour to be arranged
Location to be announced.

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	Comparative Studies Religion, Ethics, and Politics
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Comparative
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	none
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area	Area 3
Language Course Designation(s)	n/a