Religious ethics Books
Georgetown University Press Aquinas on the Emotions: A Religious-Ethical
Book SynopsisAll of us want to be happy and live well. Sometimes intense emotions affect our happiness--and, in turn, our moral lives. Our emotions can have a significant impact on our perceptions of reality, the choices we make, and the ways in which we interact with others. Can we, as moral agents, have an effect on our emotions? Do we have any choice when it comes to our emotions? In "Aquinas on the Emotions", Diana Fritz Cates shows how emotions are composed as embodied mental states. She identifies various factors, including religious beliefs, intuitions, images, and questions that can affect the formation and the course of a person's emotions. She attends to the appetitive as well as the cognitive dimension of emotion, both of which Aquinas interprets with flexibility. The result is a powerful study of Aquinas that is also a resource for readers who want to understand and cultivate the emotional dimension of their lives.Trade ReviewCates' engagement with Aquinas provides a grammar of emotional and moral life, but one that is never over-determined; white it has universal applicability, it leaves plenty of scope for individual initiative. Her examination provides a realistic prompt to self-understanding, more accurate 'readings' of reality and more appropriate responses to others. Theological Book Review This is a careful and clear study of emotions in Aquinas. As such, Cates' book is also a resource for a wide range of readers who want to understand, educate and cultivate the emotional dimensions of their ethical and religious life. Catholic Library WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Religious Ethics 2.Religious Ethics and the Study of Emotion 3. Approaching Aquinas on the Emotions (I) 4. Approaching Aquinas on the Emotion (II) 5. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Below (I) 6. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Below (II) 7. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Above (I) 8. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Above (II) 9. The Formation of Distinctively Human Emotions 10. The Religious-Ethical Study of Emotion Appendix: Aquinas on the Powers of Capabilities of a Human Being (Relevant Selections) Bibliography Index
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Children in Minority Religions: Growing up in
Book SynopsisMinority religions that differ from the mainstream are often perceived as controversial and as a threat to the individual and to society. During the 1970s and 80s, there were intense discussions about whether conversion to these groups was voluntary or an effect of brainwashing or manipulation. In recent years, however, the situation of children in these groups has taken over the public debate regarding minority religions. Many believe that childhoods in cults involve physical and psychological abuse, and that severe punishment, starvation, sexual abuse, manipulation, forced obedience, lack of medical care and demonization of the outside world is part of everyday life. This book presents four years of research. Its purpose is to highlight children's upbringing in certain minority religions with a high degree of "sectarian" criteria in a sociological sense including high tension with society/world, unique legitimacy and high level of commitment. The study examines mainly, but not exclusively, seven minority religious communities: The Hare Krishna movement, The Family International (formerly Children of God), The Church of Scientology, The Family Federation (formerly The Unification Church), Knutby Filadelfia (a Pentecostal group), The Exclusive Brethren, and Jehovah's Witnesses. The fieldwork was conducted in Sweden, but the situation of the children and the findings are relevant to other countries. Most of the minority groups discussed have an international character with a presence in many countries, with only minor differences depending on local circumstances. The study is based on literature from the religions and observations of children and parents in religious rituals and daily life. However, the most important material for the book are eighteen in-depth interviews with children between the ages of 8 and 17 living in these groups and seventy-five in-depth interviews with adults who grew up in minority religions and who are still involved, who grew up in minority religions, but are not now engaged, and who raised children in the minority religions.Table of ContentsIntroduction Liselotte Frisk, Sanja Nilsson and Peter Akerback Section 1: General Overview and Perspectives 1. The Politicization of Children in Minority Religions: The Swedish and the European Contexts Peter Akerback 2. Children's Rights in Relation to Religion in Contemporary Sweden: Debates and Arguments Sanja Nilsson 3. Growing Up in Controversial Minority Religions: Constructions of Childhoods Liselotte Frisk Section 2: Different Groups and Different Perspectives 4. Recently Reborn: To Return as a Child of Scientologist Parents Peter Akerback 5. The Family International: A Narrative Approach Liselotte Frisk and Sanja Nilsson 6. Diana Baumrind's Parenting Styles: The Examples of the Osho Movement and Jehovah's Witnesses Liselotte Frisk 7. "I have lived all my life in a reality that doesn't exist": Perspectives from Ex-members Raised in Controversial Minority Religions Liselotte Frisk 8. Religion, Parenting and Child Corporal Punishment: The Example of the Twelve Tribes Liselotte Frisk 9. Medicine and Healthcare in Controversial Minority Religions: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology Liselotte Frisk 10. The Charismatic Leader in Knutby Filadelfia: The Children's Perspective Sanja Nilsson Section 3: Educational Perspectives 11. Learning the Principles: The Socialization of Children Within the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Peter Akerback 12. In the Rear-view Mirror: Experiences of Attending an Ashram-based Religious Minority School in Sweden Sanja Nilsson 13. Raising and Schooling Children in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church: The Swedish Perspective Liselotte Frisk and Sanja Nilsson 14. The Waldorf Education System and Religion Liselotte Frisk 15. Applied Scholastics and Study Technology: The Educational Perspective Developed by L. Ron Hubbard Liselotte Frisk Section 4: Conclusion 16. Conclusion: Controversial Minority Religions and Childhoods Liselotte Frisk, Sanja Nilsson and Peter Akerback Appendix 1: Glossary of Minority Religions Discussed in the Book Appendix 2: Interviews
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ethical Questions in Healthcare Chaplaincy:
Book SynopsisThis textbook untangles the complicated ethical dilemmas that arise during the day-to-day work of healthcare chaplaincy, and offers a sturdy but flexible framework which chaplains can use to reflect on their own practice.Tackling essential issues such as consent, life support, abortion, beginning and end of life and human dignity, it enables chaplains to tease out the ethical implications of situations they encounter, to educate themselves on relevant legal matters and to engage with different ethical viewpoints. The book combines case studies of familiar scenarios with thorough information on legal matters, while providing ample opportunity for workplace reflection and offering guidance as to how chaplains can best support patients and their families while preserving their own integrity and well-being. Clear, sensitive and user-friendly, this will be an indispensable resource for healthcare chaplains and all healthcare professionals interested in spiritual care.Trade ReviewA wonderfully clear example of applied ethics, very much written with the working Chaplain in mind. I expect we will see a copy on the shelves of most acute Chaplaincy Departments, and I would specifically commend to those from a Christian tradition considering Chaplaincy as a vocation to read cover to cover. Packed with useful guidance on tricky issues, it also engages the reader on a self-reflective journey through the gamut of ethical challenges we may encounter in acute hospitals. All in all, a real contribution to our Chaplaincy toolkit. -- Dr Simon Harrison (President, CHCC)Ethical Questions in Healthcare Chaplaincy is a an invaluable tool with which to think about the many challenging pastoral situations a chaplain may encounter. Its use of different scenarios and related questions helps the chaplain reflect on what he sees, to think critically about his response and thereby improve his care and support of those to whom he ministers.Having previously worked full time as a hospital chaplain for 11 years I only wish this book had been available then. -- Bishop Paul MasonPia Matthews has written a timely and informative book that speaks directly to its readers.This book is to be commended for its breadth and the straightforwardness of its discussion. It could valuably be shared with all chaplaincy volunteers and is essential reading for anyone who finds themselves working for the first time as a healthcare chaplain. -- Caroline Worsfold * The Way, a Journal of Christian Spirituality published by the British Jesuits *Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Basics. 2. The Dignity of the Human Person. 3. Autonomy, Consent, Refusing Treatment and Boundaries. 4. Ethics and Non-autonomous Patients. 5. Confidentiality, Privacy, Data Protection, Truth Telling and Trust. 6. Ethical Issues at the Beginning of Life. 7. Ethical Issues about Babies, Children and Young Adults. 8. Ethical Issues at the End of Life. 9. Dying and Death: Ethical Issues. 10. Loss, Grief and Bereavement, Burn-out and the Wounded Healer. 11. Conscientious Objection and Loyalties. Resources.
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Rowman & Littlefield Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after
Book SynopsisBonhoeffer’s New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. The work argues that new beginnings must be made in order to sustain the fundamental convictions that it is good to exist and that life in the world with others should be loved without exclusion. Bonhoeffer’s ethics of new beginning is set in conversation with the thought of four moral philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Glover, and Jonathan Lear. DeCort argues that Bonhoeffer’s ethics of new beginning opens and energizes a more promising, world-affirming moral vision with radical hope for new beginnings vis-à-vis the perceived absence of God in the face of devastation. Trade ReviewIn mid-century Europe, totalitarians on both the left and the right sought to remake humanity, society, politics, morality, geography, and population. The scope of their hubris was astonishing, as was the body count they left behind. To accomplish their idolatrous, disastrous goals, everything was permissible. In his important new book, Andrew DeCort demonstrates that Dietrich Bonhoeffer responded theologically in Nazi Germany to this mania for remaking the world through projects of political salvation at the point of a gun. DeCort shows that Bonhoeffer's biblical theology of creation, Christ, and resurrection precluded any human project to serve as our own creators and saviors by engineering a new beginning in human life. Instead, Christians at least, know (or should know) that we are called to respond to God's creative and reconciling action, and that we must do so in love of God and others. This is a groundbreaking work, ranging exhaustively over the Bonhoeffer corpus and the secondary literature. It reveals a new dimension of Bonhoeffer's thought, and demonstrates once again that Bonhoeffer was always responding to the dangerous political and moral ideas around him with a disciplined theological and ethical response -- a response that took him to his death. Highly recommended! -- David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer UniversityHere we have a fresh – indeed groundbreaking – reading of Bonhoeffer’s entire corpus. As he reconstructs Bonhoeffer’s theological ethics of new beginnings, DeCort shows how Bonhoeffer’s final words, “This is for me the end, but also the beginning,” encapsulates a consistent, central theme unifying his life and work: the nature and practice of new beginnings during and after social, political, and moral devastation. This book is rigorously researched, theologically and philosophically astute, and spiritually and practically relevant. In short, it is learned and wise. -- Jennifer M. McBride, McCormick Theological SeminaryBonhoeffer’s New Beginning addresses one of the deepest challenges of Christian life: how to keep and live our faith in a world of deep suffering and moral trauma, a world that for many people has shattered the notion that faith in God is even possible. After exploring this question through the work of four major philosophers, Andrew DeCort unpacks how Bonhoeffer’s ethical writings offer such a “new beginning,” opening the way for “a radically inclusive, universal vision of moral consciousness." DeCort makes a convincing case that this search for such new beginnings is an undercurrent throughout Bonhoeffer’s work. This is a very fine book: a creative, eloquent, and often moving study of Bonhoeffer’s theology and its continuing relevance. -- Victoria J. Barnett, General Editor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English EditionAndrew DeCort’s Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning takes on the profound and utterly inescapable problem of the “new beginning,” the "beginning again," in the wake of devastation and catastrophe, and suggests that, and then shows how, Bonhoeffer engages in Christian theology in light of this problem. This book is a terrific vision, in my mind especially illuminating on some of the Christocentric elements in Bonhoeffer’s work, and drawing on work in philosophy and political theory as well as Christian theology; it casts new light on our predicaments and the ways that Bonhoeffer may help us identify, understand, and confront them. -- Charles T. Mathewes, University of VirginiaDeCort’s treatment of Bonhoeffer is creative. This study of Bonhoeffer, which includes analysis of other major figures like Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt, takes an innovative turn to look at the concept of an ethics of beginning again. -- Reggie L. Williams, McCormick Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsBeginning Introduction – Our Over-All Take on Human Life: The Problem of Morality and the Ethics of New Beginning Chapter 1 – The Trial: Universal Entry and The Problem of Morality Chapter 2 – Four Options: The Problem of Morality and the Ethics of New Beginning in Nietzsche, Arendt, Glover, and Lear Chapter 3 – “A Rift Irreparable Through Human Initiative”: Devastation and the Human (In)Capacity to Make a New Beginning in Bonhoeffer’s Thought Chapter 4 – “Only with God Is There A New Way, A New Beginning”: Justification and Guidance For New Beginning In Bonhoeffer’s Thought Chapter 5 – “The Dawning of The New World, The New Order”: Practices of New Beginning In Bonhoeffer’s Thought Conclusion – After the Beginning: The Problem of Morality, Divine Absence, and the Ethics of New Beginning after Devastation Beginning Anew Appendix – Bonhoeffer’s Last Words: A Personal Testament and Theological Summary?
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De Gruyter Einführung in die Theologische Ethik
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De Gruyter Im Dunkel der Sexualität
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De Gruyter Natur und Vernunft
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Antitheologie: Theologische Spuren bei Martin
Book SynopsisEike Christian Herzig geht der Frage nach, welchen Einfluss die Philosophie Martin Heideggers auf das Theologieverständnis von Heinrich Ott und Eberhard Jüngel zu Beginn der 1960er Jahre hatte. Ihre theologische Auseinandersetzung über die Bedeutung der Seinsphilosophie Heideggers zeugt von einem Ringen um ein theologisches Selbstverständnis zwischen existenzieller Orientierung und christlichem Glauben. Dazu wird Heideggers Werk unter bestimmten Aspekten untersucht: Seine Überlegungen zur Philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches, zur Dichtung Hölderlins und zu frühgriechischen Denkern loten das kritische Verhältnis zur Theologie in einer Weise aus, die als "antitheologisch" bezeichnet werden kann. Welche Spannungen und Erkenntnisse ein konstruktiver Umgang mit dieser Philosophie für die Theologie bereithält, belegen die Interpretationen Otts und Jüngels, die in dieser Arbeit eingehend analysiert werden.
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Mohr Siebeck Vollkommenheit und Fragmentaritat
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Exponiertheit
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Kohlhammer Ethik Und Spiritualitat Im Gesundheitswesen:
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Kohlhammer Narrative Ethik in Der Klinikseelsorge: Ethische
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Kohlhammer W. Kontext Und Dialog
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Kohlhammer Assistierter Suizid: Standortbestimmungen Und
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Kohlhammer Versorgung Gestalten in Vulnerablen Lebenslagen
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Theologischer Verlag Denken, Das Nach Handeln Fragt: Beitrage Zur
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Theologischer Verlag Seelsorge Bei Assistiertem Suizid: Ethik,
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Theologischer Verlag Der Gestirnte Himmel Uber Uns: Theologie,
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Pano Verlag Krise Der Zukunft II: Verantwortung Und Freiheit
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Sunde: Die Entdeckung Der Menschlichkeit
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt The Impact of Health Care: On Character
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Evangelische Verlagsansta Friedensethik in Kriegszeiten
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Evangelische Verlagsansta Glauben Und Denken Passt Das Zusammen
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Evangelische Verlagsansta Kritische Theorie und liberales Christentum
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Verlag Herder Sexueller Missbrauch Von Kindern Und Jugendlichen
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Brill U Schoningh The Spirit and the Body: Towards a Womanist
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Brill U Schoningh Our Common, Bordered Home: Laudato Si' and the
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Brill I Schoeningh Human
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Solidaritat
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Ethische Kernthemen: Lebensweltlich
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Und siehe, es war schön bunt!: Menschsein und
Book SynopsisDie eigene Identität zeichnet einen Menschen aus. Sie ist vielfältig, bunt und hält sich in den seltensten Fällen an eine vorgegebene Norm. Identität hängt dabei von vielen verschiedenen Bereichen eines Lebens ab und verändert sich im Lebenslauf: Wie ist meine körperliche Ausstattung und Verfasstheit und welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich daraus? Wie ist mein Selbstbild vom eigenen Körper? Welche Rolle als Mann oder Frau nehme ich ein und welche (biblischen) Vorbilder gibt es dafür? Wie ist es mit der eigenen Geschlechtlichkeit und was ist, wenn die Geschlechtszugehörigkeit gar nicht so klar und einfach zu fassen ist? Welchen Einfluss hat meine Familie auf die eigene Identität und welche Formen von Partnerschaft oder Familie sind für mich erstrebenswert? Warum habe ich mir genau diese Arbeit ausgesucht und welchen Einfluss hat mein Beruf auf meine Identität?Die praxiserprobten Module greifen deswegen Bereiche des Menschseins und der Identität auf wie Körperlichkeit, Geschlechterrollen, Geschlechtsidentität, Familienbilder oder das eigene Arbeitsleben. Dabei wird immer wieder die Frage nach den eigenen Vorstellungen von einem gelingenden Leben gestellt. Zwei weitere Leitlinien ziehen sich aber an vielen Stellen durch den Band: die Verknüpfung der Themen mit biblischen Bezügen sowie der Blick auf die Beruflichkeit und den Arbeitsalltag, der die eigene Identität prägt. Dass Menschsein auf Grundlage des biblisch-christlichen Menschenbildes grundsätzlich bejaht ist, aber unterschiedlich und vielfältig ausgelebt werden kann und darf, ist Grundlage des ganzen Bandes.
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Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag Gewaltfreiheit Und Gerechten Frieden in Kirche
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Das Weltbild Der Igel: Naturethik Einmal Anders
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Entscheidungen in Grenzsituationen
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Bloomsbury Academic Mormonism and Moral Life
Book SynopsisCourtney S. Campbell is Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture and the Director of the Program in Medical Humanities at Oregon State University, where he teaches biomedical ethics, death and dying, non-violence and just war, religious liberty, and religious ethics. He is the author of Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics and Bearing Witness: Religious Meanings in Bioethics, and the editor of What Price Parenthood? Ethics and Assisted Reproduction. He also is a fellow of The Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank.
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British Academy Understanding Human Dignity Vol. 192 Proceedings of the British Academy
Book SynopsisThe concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics, law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law, theology, politics and history and seeks to define the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines.Trade ReviewThe genesis of this truly remarkable collection of essays and papers ... [draws] together a stellar, multidisciplinary group including historians, legal academics, judges, political scientists, theologians and philosophers, to discuss the concept of human dignity from their various disciplinary perspectives ... It is that interdisciplinary flavour which gives the book its greatest strength * David Turner, QC, Ecclesiastical Law Journal *Understanding Human Dignity is a highly recommendable transdisciplinary book, which provides both a good overview and in depth analysis of contemporary debates about dignity. What makes it particularly valuable and enriching is the constant dialogue between theory and practice in mutually illuminating ways, where conceptual analyses of various ways of grounding and approaching dignity interact with analyses of a rich variety of concrete material from law cases or historical cases. * Iben Damgaard, Theologische Literaturzeitung *Table of ContentsPART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ; PART II: DIGNITY CRITIQUES ; PART III: THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ; PART IV: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ; PART V: JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVES ; PART VI: APPLICATIONS ; PART VII: WAYS FORWARD?
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The University of Chicago Press Politics and the Order of Love An Augustinian
Book SynopsisAugustine - for all of his influence on Western culture and politics - was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, this title offers a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition.Trade Review"Gregory has shaped the parameters of future discussion and offers a compelling argument that must be taken seriously." - Choice "Eric Gregory is the most sophisticated and subtle Christian ethical and political thinker of his generation. He also is a major voice in contemporary discourse on love and justice, freedom, and democracy. His powerful defense of Augustinian civic liberalism is a tour de force!" - Cornel West "A joy to read.... A return to an Augustine that Augustine himself would have recognized." - Christian Century"
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The University of Chicago Press Politics and the Order of Love
Book SynopsisAugustine - for all of his influence on Western culture and politics - was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, this title offers a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition.Trade Review"Gregory has shaped the parameters of future discussion and offers a compelling argument that must be taken seriously." - Choice "Eric Gregory is the most sophisticated and subtle Christian ethical and political thinker of his generation. He also is a major voice in contemporary discourse on love and justice, freedom, and democracy. His powerful defense of Augustinian civic liberalism is a tour de force!" - Cornel West "A joy to read.... A return to an Augustine that Augustine himself would have recognized." - Christian Century"
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The University of Chicago Press Putting On Virtue
Book SynopsisAugustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This title reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought.Trade Review"This first-rate work deserves wide reading.... By demonstrating a keen command of theological and philosophical issues, it easily finds a place among the finest works on theological ethics. Essential." (Choice)"
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Columbia University Press Religion and Ecology
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA very impressive book; a visionary synthesis of the most important issues concerning the intersection of science, religion, politics, and philosophy. Bauman weaves a complex and powerful narrative in his constitution of a planetary community. Religion and Ecology is a unique contribution to a growing body of work that critically rethinks our ideas of nature to vitalize the possibilities of material and ecological thinking. -- Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas Scholarship has needed this book for quite a while, one that boldly synthesizes new materialism, queer theory, ecology, and spirituality. -- Tim Morton, Rice University If I could send Obama, Xi Jinping, and Angela Merkel a book (and they would promise to study it), this would be it. These powerful politicians need to understand that their ethical obligations in the twenty-first century will not be toward globalized beings but rather planetary Being, that is, people, animals, and plants who perform their identities rather than submit to them. These are also Beings who know there is no certainty when it comes to performance because, as Bauman says, 'the only certainty is that when certainty is imposed on the world love is impossible and violence is inevitable.' This is a book philosophers, theologians, and scientists will debate for a very long time. -- Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona and coautho,r with Gianni Vattimo, of Hermeneutic Communism Any self-respecting earthling will love this book. Bauman invites us to the 'polyamoury of place' for a new powow of science, religion, and nature. His dazzlingly engaging investigation does not close in our possibilities; deftly subversive, queerly erudite, it does not just analyze, it activates our 'becoming with earth others.' -- Catherine Keller, Drew University Bauman's book [is] the best available book on the subject. -- Andrew J. Spencer Environmental Ethics Because this book brings together so many different perspectives and issues, it is especially helpful for religion scholars and theologians who are not familiar with environmental issues, but it will also be of interest to environmental ethicists and ecotheologians, who will find Bauman's use of queer theory and his critique of bioregionalism both original and constructive. -- Anna Peterson Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and EcologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Emergence of Planetary Identities 1. Religion and Science in Dialogue 2. Destabilizing Nature: Natura Naturans, Emergence, and Evolution's Rainbow 3. Destabilizing Religion: The Death of God, a Viable Agnosticism, and the Embrace of Polydoxy 4. Destabilizing Identity: Beyond Identity Solipsism 5. The Emergence of Ecoreligious Identities 6. Developing Planetary Environmental Ethics: A Nomadic Polyamory of Place 7. Challenging Human Exceptionalism: Human Becoming, Technology, Earth Others, and Planetary Identities Notes Glossary Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press The Question of the Animal and Religion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith this highly original and exciting book, Aaron S. Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religiosity and theological reflection. Beautifully written, this book has to be read by anyone with an interest in the study of religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron S. Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging exploration of the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blindness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in. -- J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A leading young scholar in the emerging field of animal studies, Gross reveals the deep binaries around which most dominant religious worldviews, as well as the Enlightenment-vectored study of religion, have always revolved-human/animal, subject/object, culture/nature, self/other. Without a radical surrender of these divisions, which render animals as but 'a foil and shadow of the human world,' no legitimate theorizing about religion can take place. Nor is any true religious life possible. Echoing two heartbreaking cries to heaven, separated by eighteen hundred years-the plea of a calf seeking refuge from kosher slaughter in the robes of Rabbi Judah the Prince and the screams of cattle half-butchered but still alive in the now-infamous 'kosher' meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa-this work makes its own unforgettable plea. Do we have the courage to sacrifice sacrifice itself? There will be no getting around this book. -- Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a significant contribution to both the larger field of animal studies and the smaller subdiscipline of animal studies in religion. This is in part because Aaron S. Gross's case study on the brutal and systematic animal cruelty at a kosher-meat-producing company is so important, and especially because Gross's is the first work in animal studies in religion to present such a thorough methodological approach. -- Barbara K. Darling, Wheaton College The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a crucial contribution to the emerging field of animals and religion. As of today, I cannot name another study that has specifically analyzed the thinking of the foundational theorists of religious studies such as Mircea Eliade, Emile Durkheim, and J.Z. Smith in regard to animals. -- Barbara Rossetti Ambros, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Question of the Animal and Religion persuasively demonstrates the need to extend our understanding of religion beyond the human drama to include, as Gross insists, the drama of living itself. This book deserves to be taken seriously. Reading Religion Gross's book marks a welcome and important step in bringing animal studies to the study of religion, and religion to animal studies. -- Katharine Mershon Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethical Tropes in American Kosher Certification 2. The Event and Response 3. The Absent Presence: Animals in the History of the Study of Religion 4. After the Subject: Hunter-Gatherers and the Reimagination of Religion 5. Disavowal, War, Sacrifice: Jacques Derrida and the Reimagination of Religion 6. Sacrificing Animals and Being a Mensch: Dominion, Reverence, and the Meaning of Modern Meat Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics"At a time when the necessity for animal experimentation has been called more and more into doubt, the Linzeys show how deep-seated research paradigms, institutional inertia, and money from the biomedical industry can persuade an esteemed university like Oxford to press on with practices that to any dispassionate observer must seem barbaric. Their analysis is backed up by an impressive set of essays by philosophers, lawyers, and scientists."--J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate for Literature"Essential reading. A comprehensive ethical analysis of animal experiments. Bound to become a classic."--Sir David Madden, Senior Member, St Antony's College, Oxford"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics
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University of Illinois Press God Science Sex Gender
Book SynopsisAttempts to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology.Trade Review"A tremendously important collection that brings together science, literature, theology, and biblical studies in riveting and revolutionary ways. The essays are remarkably integrated and accessible.”--Christine Gudorf, author of Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics"This book makes great strides towards bridging intellectual divides between science, religion, gender, sexuality and ethics."--Religion and Gender"A methodological must-read for ethicists of sexuality and for all ethicists wishing to engage biological and social sciences rigorously."--Equinox Publishing"A remarkable endeavor by experts from various disciplines."--Anglican Theological ReviewTable of ContentsContributors are: Joel Brown, James Calcagno, Francis J. Catania, Pamela L. Caughie, Robin Colburn, Robert Di Vito, Terry Grande, Frank Fennell, Anne E. Figert, Patricia Beattie Jung, Fred Kniss, John McCarthy, Jon Nilson, Stephen J. Pope, Susan A. Ross, Joan Roughgarden, and Aana Marie Vigen
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University of Illinois Press The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics"At a time when the necessity for animal experimentation has been called more and more into doubt, the Linzeys show how deep-seated research paradigms, institutional inertia, and money from the biomedical industry can persuade an esteemed university like Oxford to press on with practices that to any dispassionate observer must seem barbaric. Their analysis is backed up by an impressive set of essays by philosophers, lawyers, and scientists."--J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate for Literature"Essential reading. A comprehensive ethical analysis of animal experiments. Bound to become a classic."--Sir David Madden, Senior Member, St Antony's College, Oxford"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics
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University of Illinois Press The Spirit of Soul Food
Book SynopsisSoul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today?Christopher Carter's answer to that question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy. The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized. Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today's Black foodways at the crossroads of food jusTrade Review"The Spirit of Soul Food is a must-read for anyone interested in challenging the industrial food system in practical terms." --Reading Religion "Christopher Carter's The Spirit of Soul Food is a deeply enlightening discussion of food, foodways, and how the lived experiences of people can shape and be shaped by what they grow, acquire, and eat." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews “I've never read a book like this before! Part history book, part cookbook, part call-to-action and resource for spiritual formation. The Spirit of Soul Food is suited for a variety of audiences ready for the timely challenge of inviting a deeper integration of our ethics, actions, and daily bread.”--Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III, Pleasant Hope Baptist ChurchTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Knowing, Eating, and Believing 1 1 Transatlantic Soul 22 2 Food Pyramid Scheme 57 3 Being Human as Praxis 87 4 Tasting Freedom 122 Conclusion: Food Deserts and Desserts 157 Notes 165 Index 179
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Indiana University Press Ethics and the Problem of Evil
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRecommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Modest Proposal? Caveat Emptor! Moral Theory and Problems of EvilMarilyn Adams2. Kant, Job, and the Problem of EvilJohn Hare3. Good Persons, Good Aims, and the Problem of EvilLinda Zagzebski4. Does God Cooperate with Evil?Laura Garcia5. The Problem of Evil: Excessive Unnecessary SufferingBruce Russell6. Beyond the Impasse: Contemporary Moral Theory and the Crisis of Skeptical TheismStephen J Wykstra7. Perfection, Evil, and MoralityStephen MaitzenConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Ethics and the Problem of Evil
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRecommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Modest Proposal? Caveat Emptor! Moral Theory and Problems of EvilMarilyn Adams2. Kant, Job, and the Problem of EvilJohn Hare3. Good Persons, Good Aims, and the Problem of EvilLinda Zagzebski4. Does God Cooperate with Evil?Laura Garcia5. The Problem of Evil: Excessive Unnecessary SufferingBruce Russell6. Beyond the Impasse: Contemporary Moral Theory and the Crisis of Skeptical TheismStephen J Wykstra7. Perfection, Evil, and MoralityStephen MaitzenConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press In Praise of Heteronomy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book not only displays a richness versed in both analytic and continental philosophy of religion, but also German idealism and modern theology. This gives the book a uniquely sharp philosophical edge (that makes distinctions and stakes claims) and when combined with an imaginative and personal verve (via testimonies, poems, and novels) demonstrates for the reader that philosophy of religion need not be banal and abstract, and indeed is best understood as an always operative and lived endeavor—one that is alive and well. * Reading Religion *Merod Westphal is a brilliant Christian philosopher, who combines meticulous scholarship with a lively, at times even folksy, style as well as cogent arguments. -- Andrew Shanks * Modern Believing *Beyond its clear and accessible discussions of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel, In Praise of Heteronomy also makes a valuable contribution to contemporary philosophy of religion. It paints a picture of religious belief that is at once traditional and radical. * International Journal for Philosophy of Religion *Westphal's book should be read eagerly not only by scholars working on the philosophy of religion, but by theologians. By carefully teasing out how the tension between autonomy and heteronomy informs the theologies of Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, Westphal offers a useful corrective to trends in modern theology that carelessly and uncritically parrot the themes of modern philosophy. * Heythrop Journal *Table of ContentsSiglaPreface1. Executive and Legislative Autonomy 2. Spinoza's Theology 3. Spinoza's Hermeneutics 4. Kant's Theology 5. Kant's Hermeneutics I 6. Kant's Hermeneutics II 7. Hegel's Theology I 8. Hegel's Theology II 9. Hegel's Hermeneutics 10. The Inevitability of Heteronomy11. Heteronomy as FreedomNotesIndex
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