ISBN:
9781800735514
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Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (260 p)
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9.00 6.00 in
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 12
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Keywords:
Anthropology (General), Sociology, Anthropology of Religion
Abstract:
Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An Introduction -- David Henig and Anna Strhan -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1. Where is the Good in the World? -- Joel Robbins -- Chapter 2. Nowhere and Everywhere -- Michael Lambek -- Chapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice -- Owen Abbott -- Chapter 4. For the Agony of 'the Good' and of the Moral Courage to Do It -- Iain Wilkinson -- Chapter 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-Ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social Theory -- Victor Jeleniewski Seidler -- Part I: Commentary -- Steven Lukes -- Part II:Approaching the Good in Everyday Life -- Chapter 6. 'To See a Sinner Repent is a Joyful Thing': Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian Church -- Gordon Lynch -- Chapter 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary China -- Kimberly Chong -- Chapter 8. 'God isn't a Communist': Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in London -- Anna Strhan -- Chapter 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children's Ethical Sensibilities in School Assemblies -- Rachael Shillitoe -- Chapter 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish Ethnography -- Ruth Sheldon -- Chapter 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina -- David Henig -- Part II: Commentary -- Maeve Cooke -- Index
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Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
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