| Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Flanagan, Kieran (Editor), Jupp, Peter C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0333750101 ISBN-13: 9780333750100 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: This collection of 13 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, the apocalypse, mourning, and moral ambiguity. It also treats the concept of virtue in response to MacIntyre, Bauman, Weber, Durkheim, and Giddens. It seeks to move sociology past disabling effects of postmodernity. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Religious |
| Dewey: 306.691 |
| LCCN: 00042075 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.9" W x 8.96" (1.18 lbs) 267 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
