Kieran Flanagan

Gebundenes Buch

Virtue Ethics and Sociology

Issues of Modernity and Religion

Herausgegeben: Flanagan, Kieran; Jupp, Peter C.

Beschreibung

This collection of thirteen 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, and apocalypse, mourning, moral ambiguity. It also treats the concept of virtue in response to MacIntyre, Bauman, Weber, Durkheim and Giddens. It seeks to move sociology past the disabling effects of postmodernity.

Autor

MARGARET ARCHER Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick ROHIT BAROT Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol SYLVIA COLLINS Lecturer in Sociology, Kingston University PINK DANDELION Associate Director, Centre for Wuaker Studies, University of Sunderland CHRISTIE DAVIES Professor of Sociology, University of Reading PAUL HEELAS Professor of Religion and Modernity, Lancaster University DAVID HERBERT Staff Tutor in Arts, with reference to Religious Studies, Open University JESSICA LINDOF Postgraduate Student, Centre for the Study of Theology, Literature and the Arts, University of Glasgow PETER MCMYLOR Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester MARK NEAL Lecturer in Organisation Studies, University of Aston KEITH TESTER Professor of Social Theory, University of Portsmouth W.WATTS MILLER Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-75010-0
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780333750100
• ISBN-10: 0333750101
• Artikelnr.: 22025981

Rezensionen

'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