Friends on the Margins
In this essay, I examine Richard Miller's exposition of political solidarity as one of the key contributions of his multifaceted argument in Friends and Other Strangers to the study of religion, ethics, and culture. Miller's focus on culture broadens the landscape of ethical analysis in wa...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 192-202 |
Review of: | Friends and other strangers (New York : Columbia University Press, 2016) (Omer, Atalia)
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RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics |
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Book review
B Critical Theory B Judith Butler B Jewish Palestine solidarity B sociology of emotions B Social Movement Theory B Solidarity B Framing |
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Summary: | In this essay, I examine Richard Miller's exposition of political solidarity as one of the key contributions of his multifaceted argument in Friends and Other Strangers to the study of religion, ethics, and culture. Miller's focus on culture broadens the landscape of ethical analysis in ways that illuminate how culture and cultural productions mediate and construct norms and virtues, and the complex relations between self and society. I challenge Miller's inclination, however, to focus scholarly attention more on habituated forms of civic identity and communal solidarity rather than on disruptive potentialities and critical practices. I suggest that an engagement with social movement theory and the sociology of emotions, with their focus on semiotic analysis and social change processes and mechanisms, can greatly enrich Miller's account of religion and ethical solidarity. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Reference: | Kritik in "Alterity, Intimacy, and the Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics (2019)"
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Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12258 |