British Sociological Association

Sociology of Religion Study Group

Hardback
November 2000
288 pages

216mm x 138mm
ISBN:0333750101
£52.50.


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Reviews:

'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

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.

Contents:
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

Author Biographies:
KIERAN FLANAGAN is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol. His publications include Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentation of the Holy (1991) The Enchantment of Sociology: a Study of Theology and Culture (1996) and he is co-editor (with Peter C.Jupp) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996).

PETER C. JUPP is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. A United Reformed Minister, he is currently minister of Peterborough Westgate Church. He is co-editor (with Kieran Flanagan) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996), (with Glennys Howarth) Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal (1996), (with Tony Rogers) Interpreting Death (1997) and (with Clare Gittings) Death in England: an Illustrated History (1999).

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