Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231174886)

Friends and Other Strangers argues for expanding the field of religious ethics to address the normative dimensions of culture, interpersonal desires, friendships and family, and institutional and political relationships. Richard B. Miller urges religious ethicists to turn to cultural studies to broaden the range of the issues they address and to examine matters of cultural practice and cultural difference in critical and self-reflexive ways.

Friends and Other Strangers critically discusses the ethics of ethnography; ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; empathy and the ethics of self-other attunement; indignation, empathy, and solidarity; the meaning of moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimensions of memory; and religion and democratic public life. Miller challenges distinctions between psyche and culture, self and other, and uses the concepts of intimacy and alterity as dialectical touchstones for examining the normative dimensions of self-other relationships. A wholly contemporary, global, and interdisciplinary work, Friends and Other Strangers illuminates aspects of moral life ethicists have otherwise overlooked.

Author: Richard Miller
ISBN-10: 0231174888
ISBN-13: 9780231174886
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2016
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2017