Everyday Ethics
Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life
Published on 1. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-62616-707-0 (ISBN)
Description
What 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.
Reviews / Votes
Everyday 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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington, DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
393 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62616-707-0 (9781626167070)
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10/2019
Georgetown University Press
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Persons
Michael Lamb is Director of the Program for Leadership and Character and Assistant Professor of Politics, Ethics, and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University.
Brian Williams is Dean of the Templeton Honors College and Assistant Professor of Ethics and Liberal Studies at Eastern University.
Brian Williams is Dean of the Templeton Honors College and Assistant Professor of Ethics and Liberal Studies at Eastern University.
Content
Introduction
Contextualizing Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology Meets Anthropology and the Social Sciences
Michael Lamb and Brian A. Williams
Part I: Evaluating Banner's Proposal: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Meaning and Method
1. Toward an Ethics of Social Practice
Molly Farneth
2. Engaging the Everyday in Womanist Ethics and Mujerista Theology
Stephanie 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 Considered
Jennifer 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 Reward
Justin 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 Theology
Charles Mathewes
13. Confessions of a Moderately (Un)Repentant Sinner
Michael Banner
Appendix
Everyday Ethics: A Bibliographic Essay
Patrick McKearney
List of Contributors
Index
Contextualizing Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology Meets Anthropology and the Social Sciences
Michael Lamb and Brian A. Williams
Part I: Evaluating Banner's Proposal: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Meaning and Method
1. Toward an Ethics of Social Practice
Molly Farneth
2. Engaging the Everyday in Womanist Ethics and Mujerista Theology
Stephanie 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 Considered
Jennifer 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 Reward
Justin 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 Theology
Charles Mathewes
13. Confessions of a Moderately (Un)Repentant Sinner
Michael Banner
Appendix
Everyday Ethics: A Bibliographic Essay
Patrick McKearney
List of Contributors
Index