Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics

William Schweiker is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA. He is the author of several books including Mimetic Reflections; Responsibility and Christian Ethics; Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method (with David Clairmont). He is the chief editor and contributor to A Companion to Religious Ethics. Maria Antonaccio is Professor of Religious Studies and Director, Bucknell Humanities Center, Bucknell University, USA. She is the author of Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch, A Philosophy to Live By: Engaging Iris Murdoch, Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness (with William Schweiker). Elizabeth Bucar is Professor of Religion, Northeastern University, USA. She is the author of three books, including Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress and Religious Ethics in a Time of Globalism: Shaping a Third Wave of Comparative Analysis. David Clairmont is Associate Professor of Moral Theology and Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the co-editor of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and the author of Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics: On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological Contexts.