This collection of 13 specially commissioned essays expands a new intellectual terrain for sociology: virtue ethics. Using a variety of religious perspectives, of Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Quakerism, with considerations of Islam and the New Age, this engaged and topical collection deals with properties of virtue in relation to the person, celibacy, hope, the apocalypse, mourning, and moral ambiguity. It also treats the concept of virtue in response to MacIntyre, Bauman, Weber, Durkheim, and Giddens. It seeks to move sociology past disabling effects of postmodernity.
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'These papers...are...impeccably edited...They occupy the fertile borderlands between sociology, theology and philosophy, and should do much to reduce the mutual demonizing and boundary-maintenance disputes that so often plague relationships between these disciplines.' - Graham Howes, New Blackfriars '[Kieran Flanagan and Peter Jupp] have succeeded in giving a wider audience to a variety of stimulating papers by British sociologists of religion...this collection is well worth reading.' - Robin Gill, Journal of Contemporary Religion
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Kieran Flanagan is Reader in Sociology, University of Bristol.
Peter C. Jupp is United Reformed Church Minister and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol.
Peter C. Jupp is United Reformed Church Minister and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol.
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Any assessment of the likely impact of virtue ethics on sociology must take into account the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full particular persons, cultural extremities, immanent faith, statistical persons, subjective meaningfulness, metaphysical hope, bourgeois religion, virtue ethics, faith structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, After Virtue, Cambridge University Press, Max Weber, Second Coming, Alasdair Maclntyre, Watts Miller, Western Europe, Kieran Flanagan, Church of England, Zygmunt Bauman, British Quakerism, First World War, Mad Max, Anthony Giddens, Charles Taylor, Christie Davies, Polity Press, Blade Runner, European Values Survey, Leah Betts, Whose Justice, Ben Pink Dandelion, Douglas Gwyn, Grace Davie New!
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Any assessment of the likely impact of virtue ethics on sociology must take into account the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full particular persons, cultural extremities, immanent faith, statistical persons, subjective meaningfulness, metaphysical hope, bourgeois religion, virtue ethics, faith structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, After Virtue, Cambridge University Press, Max Weber, Second Coming, Alasdair Maclntyre, Watts Miller, Western Europe, Kieran Flanagan, Church of England, Zygmunt Bauman, British Quakerism, First World War, Mad Max, Anthony Giddens, Charles Taylor, Christie Davies, Polity Press, Blade Runner, European Values Survey, Leah Betts, Whose Justice, Ben Pink Dandelion, Douglas Gwyn, Grace Davie New!
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- After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre on 8 pages
- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair Macintyre on 8 pages
- Postmodern Ethics by Zygmunt Bauman on 5 pages
- The Era of the Individual by Alain Renaut on page 213, page 214, and Back Matter
- The SECULAR CITY by Cox on page 198, and Back Matter
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- Transcendence: Critical Realism and God (Critical Realism: Interventions) by Margaret S. Archer on page 153
- Rights: Sociological Perspectives by Lydia Morris in Back Matter
- Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures (Bsa Sub Series of Religion and Theology in Interdisciplinary Perspectives Series) ... Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective) by Grace Davie on page 157
- Transcendence: Critical Realism and God (Critical Realism: Interventions) by Margaret S. Archer on page 153
- Death and Bereavement in Europe (Death and Bereavement Around the World, Vol. 3) (Death, Value, and Meaning Series) by John D. Morgan in Back Matter
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