Friends and Other Strangers - by Richard Miller (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Richard B. Miller aims to stimulate religious ethics through discussions of ethnography, ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; the ethics of empathy; moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, loyalty, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimensions of memory; and religion and democratic life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Friends and Other Strangers</i> 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. <p/><i>Friends and Other Strangers</i> 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, <i>Friends and Other Strangers</i> illuminates aspects of moral life ethicists have otherwise overlooked.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An important book for theological ethics and public theology as well as religious ethics.--Theological Studies<br><br>Deserves a wide reading within the discipline it lovingly seeks to reshape.--Reading Religion<br><br>Recommended.--CHOICE<br><br><i>Friends and Other Strangers</i> is a beautifully written and important book by a prominent scholar in the field of religious ethics. There is little existing work that does this sort of careful theoretical and acutely interdisciplinary thinking in a way that is both illuminating to specialists and accessible to undergraduates.--Elizabeth Bucar, author of <i>Creative Conformity: The Feminist Politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i Women</i><br><br><i>Friends and Other Strangers</i> makes a powerful and important case for a turn to culture and ordinary life in religious ethics. Exploring the implications of this turn, Richard B. Miller demonstrates that sophisticated grappling with concrete issues such as the treatment of children, friendship, the politics of memory, or just war cannot do without engaging underlying issues in moral anthropology. Based on impressively wide reading in ethnography, philosophy, and religious ethics, Miller's new book provides a timely and accessible contribution to a vibrant field.--Thomas A. Lewis, author of <i>Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion--and Vice Versa</i><br><br>The work of one of the leading religious ethicists of his generation, <i>Friends and Other Strangers</i> could revolutionize the field of religious ethics. Richard B. Miller calls for a revitalized field of inquiry that will adopt new methodological strategies while masterfully crossing disciplinary boundaries and demonstrating what first-rate work in ethics should look like.--Paul Lauritzen, author of <i>The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Richard B. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the author of<i> Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought</i> (Columbia, 2010).
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