The Current State and Present Prospects of Comparative Religious Ethics

This roundtable on the state of the field of comparative religious ethics invites participants to consider: what is the future of comparative religious ethics in the field of religious ethics, the field of religious studies, and the academy as a whole? The discussion will focus in particular on how debates regarding universalism and particularism have both pushed the field forward and enumerated new challenges to which comparative religious ethicists must respond. Representing a variety of standpoints within the field, the panelists will discuss their sense of these challenges as well as ways in which comparative religious ethics, when attentive to these issues, is well situated to respond to some of the most pressing moral and political questions of our day.