ISBN:
9781783088867
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Key Issues in Modern Sociology v.2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302/.14
Keywords:
Happiness-Social aspects
;
Happiness-Religious aspects
;
Social ethics
;
RELIGION / Comparative Religion.-bisacsh
;
HISTORY / Civilization.-bisacsh
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.
Abstract:
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapters Intro to Chapter 15 -- Introduction: Reflections on Regimes of Happiness -- Part I Happiness in the West -- Chapter One A Fragment of Bliss: Augustinian Beatitudo and the Ideal of Atonement -- Introduction -- On Opposites: Felix Roman versus Christian Beatus -- Bibliography -- Chapter Two Arts of Happiness and Love: Translating Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages -- Bibliography -- Chapter Three Spiritual Transcendence as the Path to Happiness in a Selection of Old French Texts -- Bibliography -- Chapter Four On Machiavelli, St. Francis and the Pursuit of Happiness -- On Beatings -- The Sceptical Machiavelli -- A 'Franciscan' Family -- The Pursuit of Happiness -- Bibliography -- Chapter Five Their Idea of Happiness Prevents Easy Categorization of Scottish Enlightenment Philosophers -- Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville -- Background -- Francis Hutcheson -- Henry Home, Lord Kames -- Adam Ferguson -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Six A Path to Eternal Happiness: Convent Life in the United States in the Nineteenth Century -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter Seven "Be Joyful Always!": Twenty-First-Century Evangelical Conceptions of Happiness and Trumpist Politics -- What Is Evangelicalism? -- The Beatitudes -- Meditation -- Receptivity to God through Emotional Discipline -- Normative Ranking of "Good" and "Bad" Emotions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter Eight The Erasmus Program: The Promise of European Happiness -- Introduction -- Promotion, Media and Cultural Representations7 -- The Sexual Thread -- Critiques and Counternarratives -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter Nine Innovations in the Psychological Study of Happiness: From Mirror Neurons to Mobile Technology.
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