Where is the Good in the World?

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to fo...

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Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.

David Henig is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. He is the author of Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (Illinois UP, 2020) and the co-editor of Economies of Favour After Socialism (OUP, 2017).

Anna Strhan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of The Figure of the Child...

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David Henig is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. He is the author of Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (Illinois UP, 2020) and the co-editor of Economies of Favour After Socialism (OUP, 2017).

Anna Strhan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Evangelicalism (OUP, 2019) and the co-editor of Religion and the Global City (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Joel Robbins is the Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous publications, including the books Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society (UC Press, 2004), and Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life (OUP, 2020).

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Introduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An Introduction David Henig and Anna Strhan
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 1. Where is the Good in the World? Joel Robbins
Chapter 2. Nowhere and Everywhere Michael Lambek
Chapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice Owen Abbott
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An Introduction David Henig and Anna Strhan
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 1. Where is the Good in the World? Joel Robbins
Chapter 2. Nowhere and Everywhere Michael Lambek
Chapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice Owen Abbott
Chapter 4. For the Agony of ‘the Good’ and of the Moral Courage to Do It Iain Wilkinson
Chapter 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-Ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social Theory Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Part I: Commentary Steven Lukes
Part II:Approaching the Good in Everyday Life
Chapter 6. ‘To See a Sinner Repent is a Joyful Thing’: Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian Church Gordon Lynch
Chapter 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary China Kimberly Chong
Chapter 8. ‘God isn’t a Communist’: Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in London Anna Strhan
Chapter 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children’s Ethical Sensibilities in School Assemblies
Rachael Shillitoe
Chapter 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish Ethnography
Ruth Sheldon
Chapter 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina David Henig
Part II: Commentary Maeve Cooke
Index
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