Religion and Morality

A Companion to Moral Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 339-358

  Lambek, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Durkheimian and Weberian streams, the diversity within crossover between them; Ethics and self questioning, on limits of what is possible with human well being; Ethics being implicit, embedded in practice no less than in explicit codes; Relationship of religion to ethics, and complexity; Ritual enactment, establishing moral order and direction; Society, characterized by a tension between ethics of tradition and ethics of reform; Worlds, religion and morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886559261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118290620.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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