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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Main Author: Miller, Richard Brian 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Columbia University Press 2016
In:Year: 2016
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religion / Ethics
Further subjects:B Electronic books
B Religious Ethics
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Print version: Miller, Richard B: Friends and Other Strangers : Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture. - New York : Columbia University Press,c2016. - 9780231174886
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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