Description
Book SynopsisScholars and laypeople alike are interested in religion, and many more still are interested in how to lead a meaningful life - how to flourish. The collaborative undertaking represented by
Religion and Human Flourishing will further attest to the perennial importance of the questions of religious belief and the pursuit of the good life.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Adam B. Cohen
- Part 1
- 1 Meanings and Dimensions of Flourishing
- A Programmatic Sketch
- Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz
- 2 Virtues, Vices, and the Good Life
- A Theologian's Perspective on Compassion and Violence
- Celia Deane-Drummond
- 3 Status Viatoris and the Path Quality of Religion
- Human Flourishing as a Sacred Process of Becoming
- Jonathan Rowson
- 4 Spiritual Well-Being and Human Flourishing
- Conceptual, Causal, and Policy Relations
- Tyler J. VanderWeele
- Part 2
- 5 Religion and Human Flourishing in the Evolution of Social Complexity
- Harvey Whitehouse
- 6 The Next Generation
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Human Flourishing
- Dominic D. P. Johnson
- 7 Religions Help Us Trust One Another
- Adam B. Cohen
- 8 Religion's Contribution to Prosociality
- Azim F. Shariff
- Part 3
- 9 Religion's Contribution to Population Health
- Key Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
- Christopher G. Ellison
- 10 Offender-Led Religious Movements
- Identity Transformation, Rehabilitation, and Justice System Reform
- Byron R. Johnson
- 11 Some Big-Data
- Lessons about Religion and Human Flourishing
- David G. Myers
- 12 Smart and Spiritual
- The Coevolution of Religion and Rationality
- Laurence R. Iannaccone
- 13 The Economics of Religion in Developing Countries
- Sriya Iyer
- 14 On Balance
- Azim F. Shariff
