Virtue Ethics and Sociology

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays expands a new intellectual terrain for sociology; virtue ethics. Using a variety of religious perspectives, of Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Quakerism, with considerations of Islam and the New Age, this engaged and topical collection deals with properties of virtue in relation to the person, celibacy, hope, and apocalypse, mourning, moral ambiguity. It also treats the concept of virtue in response to MacIntyre, Bauman, Weber, Durkheim and Giddens. It seeks to move sociology past the disabling effects of postmodernity.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; K. Flanagan Classical Thinking for a Postmodern World: Alasdair MacIntyre and the Moral Critique of the Present; P. McMylor Disenchantment and Virtue: An Essay on Max Weber ; K. Tester Virtue Ethics, Justice and Religion in Multicultural Societies; D. Herbert Ethics and the Person: Risk, Moral Recognition and Modernity; C. Davies & M. Neal Faith, Ethics: Young People and Late Modernity; S. Collins Vice and Virtue or Vice Versa: A Sociology of Being Good; K. Flanagan Contemplating Virtue: St Teresa as a Challenge to Social Theory; M. Archer Virtue Ethics and Celibacy: A Hindu Perspective; R. Barot New Age Utopianism, Cultural Extremities and Modernity; P. Heelas From Religion to Ethics: Quaker Amillennialism; P. Dandelion The Ethos of Modern Apocalyptic Stories: The Use of Judaeo-Christian Narrative in Popular Film; J. Lindohf Hope Against Hope; W. W. Miller Virtue Ethics and Death: The Final Arrangements; P. C. Jupp Conclusion; K. Flanagan Bibliography Index