PPR243: Cross-Cultural Ethics

Tutors: Gavin Hyman (Michaelmas) and Shuruq Naguib (Lent)
Terms: Michaelmas, Lent and Summer

Course Description

This course explores the emergence and construction of ethics within the context of two world religions: Christianity and Islam. It examines the ways in which religious attitudes to ethical concern and practice are influenced by traditional, textual and cultural factors. Some of the ethical concerns to be covered throughout the course are: Politics and Economics; Justice and War; Sex and Sexual practice; Rights and Law. Finally, the course will encourage students to explore some of these areas cross-culturally through the consideration of questions of difference and otherness.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:

• Describe, analyse and evaluate the ethical discourses of two major religious traditions.
• Discuss and appraise the manner in which these ethical discourses treat a number of concrete ethical issues.
• Recognise, summarise and evaluate the ways in which the ethical discourses of tehse traditions present and develop contending narratives of identity, life and purpose.
• Demonstrate intelligent and critical use of primary and secondary sources in written presentation and articulate their own judgements of ethical decision making in oral and written form.

Assessment

40% coursework and 60% unseen examination
Coursework: 2 essays of 3000 words each. Examination: 3 hours.

Teaching Method

Lecture (2 hours) weekly, and seminar (1 hour) fortnightly

Introductory Reading

Boulton, W, Kennedy, T &
Brockopp, J                                        Islamic Ethics of Life
Fakri, M                                             Ethical Theories in Islam
Le Roy Long, E                                 A Survey of Recent Christian Ethics
Verhey, A (eds)                                From Christ to the World: Introductory Readings in Christian Ethics.

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