Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion

by Kieran Flanagan (Editor), Peter C. Jupp (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333750100
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/21/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

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

Editorial Reviews

In 13 essays from an April 1997 conference at the University of Bristol, sociologists lead their discipline into the realm of virtue ethics, an expanding dimension of contemporary philosophy. They come from a number of religious perspectives, including Catholic, Protestant, Quaker, Islamic, and New Age, to consider attributes of virtue around the status of the person, celibacy, hope, mourning, and moral ambiguity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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