The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil
When Stanford M. Lyman authored The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil in 1978 it was hailed by Alasdair MacIntyre as "a book of absorbing interest and importance…[that] places us all in his debt." By Nelson Hart as "a masterful and thought-provoking book…[that] is the only scholarly treatment of sin that is so well-informed by the best of ancient through modern perspectives." By James A. Aho as a work whose "abstract hardly does justice to the scholarly and detailed analysis of sin." And by Harry Cohen as a "book…[that] stands as a beautiful illustration of what holistic, idiosyncratic, interdisciplinary, and creative thinking and writing can bring to bear on the age-old problem of society and evil."


The American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of the Emotions selected this book as one of the works that laid the foundations for the study of pride, lust, envy, and anger—basic sentiments embedded in the social process.


For this revised and expanded edition Lyman has written a new chapter, "Sentiments, Sin, and Social Conflict: Toward a Sociology of the Emotions." The new edition will be a valuable work for courses in social psychology, ethics, deviance, and the sociology of morals and of religion.
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil
When Stanford M. Lyman authored The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil in 1978 it was hailed by Alasdair MacIntyre as "a book of absorbing interest and importance…[that] places us all in his debt." By Nelson Hart as "a masterful and thought-provoking book…[that] is the only scholarly treatment of sin that is so well-informed by the best of ancient through modern perspectives." By James A. Aho as a work whose "abstract hardly does justice to the scholarly and detailed analysis of sin." And by Harry Cohen as a "book…[that] stands as a beautiful illustration of what holistic, idiosyncratic, interdisciplinary, and creative thinking and writing can bring to bear on the age-old problem of society and evil."


The American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of the Emotions selected this book as one of the works that laid the foundations for the study of pride, lust, envy, and anger—basic sentiments embedded in the social process.


For this revised and expanded edition Lyman has written a new chapter, "Sentiments, Sin, and Social Conflict: Toward a Sociology of the Emotions." The new edition will be a valuable work for courses in social psychology, ethics, deviance, and the sociology of morals and of religion.
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil

The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil

by Stanford M. Lyman
The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil

The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil

by Stanford M. Lyman

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When Stanford M. Lyman authored The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil in 1978 it was hailed by Alasdair MacIntyre as "a book of absorbing interest and importance…[that] places us all in his debt." By Nelson Hart as "a masterful and thought-provoking book…[that] is the only scholarly treatment of sin that is so well-informed by the best of ancient through modern perspectives." By James A. Aho as a work whose "abstract hardly does justice to the scholarly and detailed analysis of sin." And by Harry Cohen as a "book…[that] stands as a beautiful illustration of what holistic, idiosyncratic, interdisciplinary, and creative thinking and writing can bring to bear on the age-old problem of society and evil."


The American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of the Emotions selected this book as one of the works that laid the foundations for the study of pride, lust, envy, and anger—basic sentiments embedded in the social process.


For this revised and expanded edition Lyman has written a new chapter, "Sentiments, Sin, and Social Conflict: Toward a Sociology of the Emotions." The new edition will be a valuable work for courses in social psychology, ethics, deviance, and the sociology of morals and of religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781461644071
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 01/01/1989
Series: Seven Deadly Sins
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 841 KB

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Sin and Sociology
Chapter 2 Sloth
Chapter 3 Lust
Chapter 4 Anger
Chapter 5 Pride
Chapter 6 Envy
Chapter 7 Gluttony
Chapter 8 Greed
Chapter 9 Society and Evil
Chapter 10 Sin and Sentiment: Toward a Sociology of Emotions
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