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Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0199731977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory.
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-07-10
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0199883025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings have a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes them significantly from other animals on this planet. Despite the vast differences in humanity between cultures and across history, no matter how differently people narrate their lives and histories, there remains an underlying structure of human personhood that helps to order human culture, history, and narration. Drawing on important recent insights in moral philosophy, epistemology, and narrative studies, Smith argues that humans are animals who have an inescapable moral and spiritual dimension. They cannot avoid a fundamental moral orientation in life and this, says Smith, has profound consequences for how sociology must study human beings.
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-07-10
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0195347536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings have a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes them significantly from other animals on this planet. Despite the vast differences in humanity between cultures and across history, no matter how differently people narrate their lives and histories, there remains an underlying structure of human personhood that helps to order human culture, history, and narration. Drawing on important recent insights in moral philosophy, epistemology, and narrative studies, Smith argues that humans are animals who have an inescapable moral and spiritual dimension. They cannot avoid a fundamental moral orientation in life and this, says Smith, has profound consequences for how sociology must study human beings.
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2009-09-14
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0195371798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on candid interviews with thousands of young people tracked over a five-year period, this book reveals how the religious practices of the teenagers portrayed in Soul Searching have been strengthened, challenged, and often changed as they have moved into adulthood.
Author: Tatjana Višak
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0199396086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. This volume presents a collection of contributions from major thinkers in ethics and animal welfare, with a special focus on the moral evaluation of killing animals.
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780199849673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory.
Author: Michael Murray
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2008-06-19
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0199237271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThose who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator.
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0691191646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking new theory of religion Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past. Drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and personalist social theory, Christian Smith explores why humans are religious in the first place—uniquely so as a species—and offers an account of secularization and religious innovation and persistence that breaks the logjam in which religious scholarship has been stuck for so long. Certain to stimulate debate and inspire promising new avenues of scholarship, Religion features a wealth of illustrations and examples that help to make its concepts accessible to readers. This superbly written book brings sound theoretical thinking to a perennially thorny subject, and a new vitality and focus to its study.
Author: Dale Peterson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-06-19
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1608193462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the moral behavior observed in animals and argues that human beings are not the only species to live by the principles of cooperation, kindness, and empathy.
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0226765946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.
