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title: Religious Ethics
description: This field investigates the moral frameworks, values, and ethical teachings found within various religious traditions. Learners will examine how different faiths address contemporary ethical dilemmas, social justice issues, and personal moral conduct.
category: humanities
subcategory: religious-studies
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/religious-ethics
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# Religious Ethics

This field investigates the moral frameworks, values, and ethical teachings found within various religious traditions. Learners will examine how different faiths address contemporary ethical dilemmas, social justice issues, and personal moral conduct.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. BBC Religions Ethics

The BBC's ethics guide, organised by issue — abortion, euthanasia, war, animal rights, capital punishment — setting out how major religions and secular philosophies argue each case. Useful for grasping the range of positions before studying any one tradition.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/

**Tags:** religious-ethics, applied-ethics, world-religions, bioethics, moral-philosophy

### 2. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Religion and Morality

A peer-reviewed philosophy encyclopedia entry surveying how morality and religion have been linked from Plato to contemporary analytic philosophy, including divine command theory and the Euthyphro problem. Readers gain a map of the main positions and their standard objections.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-morality/

**Tags:** religious-ethics, philosophy-of-religion, divine-command-theory, metaethics, moral-philosophy

## Podcasts

### 1. Moral Maze

**Author:** BBC Radio 4

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11

**Tags:** applied-ethics, moral-philosophy, debate, religious-ethics, current-affairs

### 2. Theology in the Raw

**Author:** Preston Sprinkle

Interview podcast hosted by biblical scholar Preston Sprinkle, featuring guests from varied viewpoints on contested moral and cultural questions such as sexuality, gender, race, politics and violence. Listeners hear how Christian thinkers reason from scripture and theology toward positions on contemporary ethical debates.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://art19.com/shows/theology-in-the-raw

**Tags:** christian-ethics, biblical-studies, sexuality-and-gender, cultural-issues, interviews

### 3. The Jewish History Podcast

**Author:** TORCH

Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe's Jewish History Lectures. Please email questions or comments to rabbiwolbe@gmail.com

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://rabbiwolbe.com

**Tags:** jewish-history, judaism, torah, rabbinic-literature, jewish-thought

## Books

### 1. Ethics in the World Religions

**Author:** Joseph Runzo

Edited essays by philosophers and religious studies scholars applying Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Jewish, Christian and Muslim ethical traditions to concrete problems such as ecology, organ transplantation and gender. Useful for comparing how traditions reason about applied moral questions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1851682473?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, religious-studies

### 2. Comparative Religious Ethics

**Author:** Darrell J. Fasching

A university textbook that teaches religious ethics through the stories traditions tell, comparing Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian and Muslim moral reasoning on war, ecology and human dignity. Prepares readers to analyze cross-cultural ethical arguments in a global context.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1444331337?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, religious-studies

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