Friends and other strangers: studies in religion, ethics, and culture
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...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2016
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In: | Year: 2016 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Ethics
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Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Religious Ethics |
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Erscheint auch als: Miller, Richard B: Friends and Other Strangers : Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture. - New York : Columbia University Press,c2016. - 9780231174886 |
Summary: | 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 Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Friends and Other Strangers -- Part I: Religion, Ethics, and the Human Sciences -- 1. What Is Religious Ethics? -- 2. On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics -- 3. Moral Authority and Moral Criticism in an Age of Ethnocentric Anxiety -- Part II: Selves and Others -- 4. The Ethics of Empathy -- 5. Indignation, Empathy, and Solidarity -- 6. On Duties and Debts to Children -- 7. Evil, Friendship, and Iconic Realism in Augustine's Confessions -- Part III: Communities and Institutions 8. Just War, Civic Virtue, and Democratic Social Criticism: Augustinian Reflections -- 9. The Moral and Political Burdens of Memory -- 10. Religion, Public Reason, and the Morality of Democratic Authority -- Epilogue: Signposts of the Past and for the Future -- Notes -- Index |
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ISBN: | 0231541554 |