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Book SynopsisWhat might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of moral theology (including some GUP authors) to explore that question in dialogue with anthropology and the social sciences. Inspired by the work of Michael Banner, these scholars cross disciplinary boundaries to analyze the ethics of ordinary practices—from eating, learning, and loving thy neighbor to borrowing and spending, using technology, and working in a flexible economy. Along the way, they consider the moral and methodological questions that emerge from this interdisciplinary dialogue and assess the implications for the future of moral theology.
Trade ReviewEveryday Ethics goes beyond its immediate responsive purpose by taking part in, and providing methodological reflections upon, a movement by Christian moral theologians who engage more deeply with the work and tools of anthropology. * Religion and its Publics *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Contextualizing Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology Meets Anthropology and the Social SciencesMichael Lamb and Brian A. Williams Part I: Evaluating Banner's Proposal: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Meaning and Method 1. Toward an Ethics of Social PracticeMolly Farneth 2. Engaging the Everyday in Womanist Ethics and Mujerista TheologyStephanie Mota Thurston 3. Social Anthropology, Ethnography, and the Ordinary Morgan Clarke 4. "The Everyday" against the "and" in "Theology and Social Science"Brian Brock Part II: Practices of Everyday Ethics: Extending the Proposal 5. Forming Humanity: Practices of Education Christianly ConsideredJennifer A. Herdt 6. Charity, Justice, and the Ethics of Humanitarianism Eric Gregory 7. The Elimination of the Human within the Technological Society Craig M. Gay 8. On New New Things: Work and Christian Thought in Flexible Capitalism Philip Lorish 9. The Everyday Ethics of Borrowing and Spending: Evaluating Economic Risk and RewardJustin Welby 10. Sharing Tables: The Embodied Ethics of Eating and Joining Rachel Muers Part III: Everyday Ethics: A Future for Moral Theology? 11. The Tasks of Christian Ethics: Theology, Ethnography, and the Conundrums of the Cultural Turn Luke Bretherton 12. Sacramental Ethics and the Future of Moral TheologyCharles Mathewes 13. Confessions of a Moderately (Un)Repentant SinnerMichael Banner AppendixEveryday Ethics: A Bibliographic Essay Patrick McKearney List of Contributors Index
