Buddhism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation
- Submitting institution
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Canterbury Christ Church University
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- U31.008
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415789158
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The monograph with a length of c. 100,000 words is the result of six years of work and based on extensive research. This distinctive philosophy of religion counters the bias towards Western perspectives in many contributions to this field and discusses problems of suffering and evil, karma and rebirth, freedom and determinism, concepts of Buddha, the varieties of emptiness, the nature of religious language and inter-religious diversity. It assesses naturalised Buddhism, the relationship between Buddhist ethics and moral theories such as consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and contributions of Buddhism to current discussions about our obligations to the natural world.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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