Clarke / Unknown / Corran Rules and ethics

Perspectives from anthropology and history
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4891-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the world’s ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre-modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistry, contemporary Judaism and the Islamic sharia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Clarke, Morgan

Corran, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: rules and ethics – Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran
Part I: Rules enabling moral life
1 Conscience is tradition: classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism – Donald R. Davis, Jr.
2 Manners and morals: codes of civility in early modern England – Martin Ingram
3 Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – Emily Corran
Part II: Rules and virtue
4 Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics – Rebecca Langlands
5 ‘For the love of God’? The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe – Nicole Reinhardt
6 Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) – Emanuel Schaeublin
Part III: Rules about rules
7 Tactics of transformation: self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism – Jan Lorenz
8 Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition – Talal Al-Azem
9 Comparing casuistries: rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity – Morgan Clarke
Afterword – James Laidlaw
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Morgan Clarke is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Keble College

Emily Corran is Lecturer in Medieval History at University College London