Religion and Social Criticism Tradition, Method, and Values

Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor Emeritus of Human Values, Southern Methodist University, USA “What is the role of social criticism—the intellectual work of assessing the customs, practices, and policies that shape the moral quality of society—in religious ethics? This volume not only...

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Other Authors: Ranganathan, Bharat (Editor), Anglim, Caroline (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. On Religious Ethics and Social Criticism
  • Part I. Humanism, Human Dignity, and Social Criticism
  • 2. Which Criticism and Whose Humanism?
  • 3. Christian Humanism on the Individual and Human Dignity
  • 4. Social Criticism & Islamic Ethics After 9/11: How Muslim Anthropologies Matter
  • Part II. Religious Ethics, Practical Ethics, and Social Criticism
  • 5. Inhuman Weapons: Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and the Moral Salience of Culture to Their Use in Central Asia
  • 6. Prophetic Social Criticism, Solidarity, and Just War
  • 7. Moral Distress and the Intrapsychic Hazards of Medical Practice
  • 8. Recognition on Demand: A Study of Religion in Conscience Protection Clauses
  • 9. The Grieving Storyteller: Grief Narratives as a Source of Moral Reflection
  • Part III. Religious Ethics, Methods, and Social Criticism
  • 10. Political Hostility and Respect for Human Dignity
  • 11. Normativity and Solidarity