Virtue Ethics and Sociology

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays expands a new intellectual terrain for sociology; virtue ethics. Using a variety of religious perspectives, of Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Quakerism, with considerations of Islam and the New Age, this engaged and topical collection deals with properties of virtue in relation to the person, celibacy, hope, and apocalypse, mourning, moral ambiguity. It also treats the concept of virtue in response to MacIntyre, Bauman, Weber, Durkheim and Giddens. It seeks to move sociology past the disabling effects of postmodernity.

'These papers...are...impeccably edited...They occupy the fertile borderlands between sociology, theology and philosophy, and should do much to reduce the mutual demonizing and boundary-maintenance disputes that so often plague relationships between these disciplines.' - Graham Howes, New Blackfriars

'[Kieran Flanagan and Peter Jupp] have succeeded in giving a wider audience to a variety of stimulating papers by British sociologists of religion...this collection is well worth reading.' - Robin Gill, Journal of Contemporary Religion

Autorentext
MARGARET ARCHER Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick ROHIT BAROT Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol SYLVIA COLLINS Lecturer in Sociology, Kingston University PINK DANDELION Associate Director, Centre for Wuaker Studies, University of Sunderland CHRISTIE DAVIES Professor of Sociology, University of Reading PAUL HEELAS Professor of Religion and Modernity, Lancaster University DAVID HERBERT Staff Tutor in Arts, with reference to Religious Studies, Open University JESSICA LINDOF Postgraduate Student, Centre for the Study of Theology, Literature and the Arts, University of Glasgow PETER MCMYLOR Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester MARK NEAL Lecturer in Organisation Studies, University of Aston KEITH TESTER Professor of Social Theory, University of Portsmouth W.WATTS MILLER Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; K.Flanagan Classical Thinking for a Postmodern World: Alasdair MacIntyre and the Moral Critique of the Present; P.McMylor Disenchantment and Virtue: An Essay on Max Weber ; K.Tester Virtue Ethics, Justice and Religion in Multicultural Societies; D.Herbert Ethics and the Person: Risk, Moral Recognition and Modernity; C.Davies & M.Neal Faith, Ethics: Young People and Late Modernity; S.Collins Vice and Virtue or Vice Versa: A Sociology of Being Good; K.Flanagan Contemplating Virtue: St Teresa as a Challenge to Social Theory; M.Archer Virtue Ethics and Celibacy: A Hindu Perspective; R.Barot New Age Utopianism, Cultural Extremities and Modernity; P.Heelas From Religion to Ethics: Quaker Amillennialism; P.Dandelion The Ethos of Modern Apocalyptic Stories: The Use of Judaeo-Christian Narrative in Popular Film; J.Lindohf Hope Against Hope; W.W.Miller Virtue Ethics and Death: The Final Arrangements; P.C.Jupp Conclusion; K.Flanagan Bibliography Index