Global Religious Ethics
Religious Ethics explores fundamental moral sources and methods in Christian ethics in dialogue with the ethical understandings of at least one other religious tradition, and with special attention to Roman Catholic thought. In doing so, it explores moral issues faced by individuals and communities from theological perspectives, particularly mindful of how the economic, political and cultural structures in a religiously plural world affect those issues.
Outcomes: In this course, students will explore and compare the ethical understandings of Christianity and at least one other religious tradition; With respect to each tradition, students will learn about the foundational sources, doctrines and questions that guide its ethical thinking.
Reproductive Ethics: Christianity, Judaism & Islam
Religious Ethics explores fundamental moral sources and methods in Christian ethics in dialogue with the ethical understandings of at least one other religious tradition, and with special attention to Roman Catholic thought. In doing so, it explores moral issues faced by individuals and communities from theological perspectives, particularly mindful of how the economic, political and cultural structures in a religiously plural world affect those issues.
Outcomes: In this course, students will explore and compare the ethical understandings of Christianity and at least one other religious tradition; With respect to each tradition, students will learn about the foundational sources, doctrines and questions that guide its ethical thinking.
Ethics
Bioethics
Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies
Women & Gender Studies
This course satisfies the core Ethics requirement
This section of THEO 186 will explore varied religious ethical approaches to reproductive ethics, with a primary focus on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We may have time for a brief look at selected Native American, Buddhist, and/or Hindu sources.
We will find that there are many different approaches to reproductive ethics within each of these traditions because there are many ways of being Jewish, Christian or Muslim. We¿ll observe how individuals who identify with these different faiths navigate sex, gender and reproduction in their own lives, and how they adopt, adapt and/or creatively resist or reshape religious teachings and authorities. Finally, we will look at how representatives of these traditions attempt to shape law and public policy about sex, gender and reproductive practices in several countries, especially the United States.
Along the way, students can expect to learn something about the history, teachings, and sources of authority within each religious tradition, to learn a lot about reproductive ethics, and to have their understandings of ¿religion¿ and ¿ethics¿ complicated and expanded.
No books will be required for purchase. Many course texts will be found in the following volume, which is available online through the Loyola library system:
Margaret Kamitsuka and Rebecca Todd Peters, The T&T Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives
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