On Shortcomings and Biases: A Response to Ronald M. Green's Review of the "Journal of Religious Ethics"
There is no easy escape from parochialism in its twin forms of insularity and bias. Ronald Green has suggested that the JRE suffers from both, and to the extent that this is true, correction is required. Assessing the truth of the complaint is, however, complicated. While more attention to the metho...
| Published in: | Journal of religious ethics |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1997
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Journal of religious ethics
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| Summary: | There is no easy escape from parochialism in its twin forms of insularity and bias. Ronald Green has suggested that the JRE suffers from both, and to the extent that this is true, correction is required. Assessing the truth of the complaint is, however, complicated. While more attention to the methods and findings of other disciplines is desirable, success in this area is best achieved (and therefore best measured) by the appropriation of such work by ethicists. Evidence of engagement with other disciplines may therefore be diffuse, layered, and hard to isolate. Concerning Western bias, it is certainly true that the JRE should publish more historical studies relating to non-Christian religious traditions, but the themes and issues that Green identifies as the indices of Western and theological biases may instead arise indigenously in other religious traditions and may actually express the dominance of certain developments in moral philosophy. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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