Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Kieran Flanagan * Classical Thinking for a Postmodern World: Alasdair MacIntyre and the Moral Critique of the Present--Peter McMylor * Disenchantment and Virtue: An Essay on Max Weber--Keith Tester * Virtue Ethics, Justice and Religion in Multicultural Societies--David Herbert * Ethics and the Person: Risk, Moral Recognition and Modernity--Christie Davies & Mark Neal * Faith, Ethics, Young People and Late Modernity--Sylvia Collins * Vice and Virtue or Vice Versa: A Sociology of Being Good--Kieran Flanagan * Contemplating Virtue: St. Teresa as a Challenge to Social Theory--Margaret Archer * Virtue Ethics and Celibacy: A Hindu Perspective--Rohit Barot * New Age Utopianism, Cultural Extremities and Modernity--Paul Heelas * From Religion to Ethics: Quaker Amillennialism--Pink Dandeliion * The Ethos of Modern Apocalyptic Stories: The Use of Judaeo-Christian Narrative in Popular Film--Jessica Lindohf * Hope Against Hope--Willie Watts Miller * Virtue Ethics and Death: The Final Arrangements--Peter C. Jupp * Conclusion--Kieran Flanagan