{"product_id":"rules-and-ethics-perspectives-from-anthropology-and-history-9781526148902","title":"Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book investigates the pronounced enthusiasm that many traditions display for codes of ethics characterised by a multitude of rules. Recent anthropological interest in ethics and historical explorations of ‘self-fashioning’ have led to extensive study of the virtuous self, but existing scholarship tends to pass over the kind of morality that involves legalistic reasoning. \u003ci\u003eRules and ethics\u003c\/i\u003e corrects that omission by demonstrating the importance of rules in everyday moral life in a variety of contexts. In a nutshell, it argues that legalistic moral rules are not necessarily an obstruction to a rounded ethical self, but can be an integral part of it. An extended introduction first sets out the theoretical basis for studies of ethical systems that are characterised by detailed rules. This is followed by a series of empirical studies of rule-oriented moral traditions in a comparative perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: rules and ethics – Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Rules enabling moral life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1      Conscience is tradition: classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism – Donald R. Davis, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e2      Manners and morals: codes of civility in early modern England – Martin Ingram\u003cbr\u003e3      Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – Emily Corran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Rules and virtue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4      Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics – Rebecca Langlands\u003cbr\u003e5      ‘For the love of God’? The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe – Nicole Reinhardt\u003cbr\u003e6      Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) – Emanuel Schaeublin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Rules about rules\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7      Tactics of transformation: self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism – Jan Lorenz\u003cbr\u003e8      Conscience and action in the Islamic \u003ci\u003emadhhab\u003c\/i\u003e-law tradition – Talal Al-Azem\u003cbr\u003e9      Comparing casuistries: rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity – Morgan Clarke\u003cbr\u003eAfterword – James Laidlaw\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041013891415,"sku":"9781526148902","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526148902.jpg?v=1750948598","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rules-and-ethics-perspectives-from-anthropology-and-history-9781526148902","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}