Friends and Other Strangers - Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17488-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Richard B. Miller aims to stimulate new work in religious ethics through discussions of ethnography, ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; the ethics of empathy; the meaning of moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, loyalty, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimensions of memory; and religion and democratic life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsethik, Weltethos
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Friends and Other StrangersPart I: Religion, Ethics, and the Human Sciences1. What Is Religious Ethics?2. On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics3. Moral Authority and Moral Criticism in an Age of Ethnocentric AnxietyPart II: Selves and Others4. The Ethics of Empathy5. Indignation, Empathy, and Solidarity6. On Duties and Debts to Children7. Evil, Friendship, and Iconic Realism in Augustine's ConfessionsPart III: Communities and Institutions8. Just War, Civic Virtue, and Democratic Social Criticism: Augustinian Reflections9. The Moral and Political Burdens of Memory10. Religion, Public Reason, and the Morality of Democratic AuthorityEpilogue: Signposts of the Past and for the FutureNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Richard B. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the author of Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought.