{"product_id":"friends-and-other-strangers-9780231174893","title":"Friends and Other Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard B. Miller aims to stimulate religious ethics through discussions of ethnography, ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; the ethics of empathy; moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, loyalty, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimensions of memory; and religion and democratic life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work of one of the leading religious ethicists of his generation, \u003ci\u003eFriends and Other Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e could revolutionize the field of religious ethics. Richard B. Miller calls for a revitalized field of inquiry that will adopt new methodological strategies while masterfully crossing disciplinary boundaries and demonstrating what first-rate work in ethics should look like. -- Paul Lauritzen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriends and Other Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully written and important book by a prominent scholar in the field of religious ethics. There is little existing work that does this sort of careful theoretical and acutely interdisciplinary thinking in a way that is both illuminating to specialists and accessible to undergraduates. -- Elizabeth Bucar, author of \u003ci\u003eCreative Conformity: The Feminist Politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriends and Other Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e makes a powerful and important case for a turn to culture and ordinary life in religious ethics. Exploring the implications of this turn, Richard B. Miller demonstrates that sophisticated grappling with concrete issues such as the treatment of children, friendship, the politics of memory, or just war cannot do without engaging underlying issues in moral anthropology. Based on impressively wide reading in ethnography, philosophy, and religious ethics, Miller's new book provides a timely and accessible contribution to a vibrant field. -- Thomas A. Lewis, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion—and Vice Versa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eAn important book for theological ethics and public theology as well as religious ethics. * Theological Studies *\u003cbr\u003eDeserves a wide reading within the discipline it lovingly seeks to reshape. * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Friends and Other Strangers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Religion, Ethics, and the Human Sciences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1. What Is Religious Ethics?\u003cbr\u003e2. On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics\u003cbr\u003e3. Moral Authority and Moral Criticism in an Age of Ethnocentric Anxiety\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Selves and Others\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e4. The Ethics of Empathy\u003cbr\u003e5. Indignation, Empathy, and Solidarity\u003cbr\u003e6. On Duties and Debts to Children\u003cbr\u003e7. Evil, Friendship, and Iconic Realism in Augustine's \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Communities and Institutions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e8. Just War, Civic Virtue, and Democratic Social Criticism: Augustinian Reflections\u003cbr\u003e9. The Moral and Political Burdens of Memory\u003cbr\u003e10. Religion, Public Reason, and the Morality of Democratic Authority\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Signposts of the Past and for the Future\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400299553111,"sku":"9780231174893","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231174893.jpg?v=1730470323","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/friends-and-other-strangers-9780231174893","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}