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By delving into historical perspectives, philosophical theories, psychological and sociological studies, as well as contemporary debates, we aim to shed light on the various ways in which religion influences ethical decision-making and moral behavior. C. Thesis Statement:
Sep 2, 2009 · In the social sciences of religion the task of defining religion can be characterized as a necessary, exploratory, and useful task, but also as a superfluous, impossible, and ethnocentric activity. In this chapter the landscape is mapped through which definers of religion travel, including its T-junctions and crossroads.
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Jul 31, 2023 · Religious ethics is a social practice, and social practices “belong to groups of people, all of whom have some stake in how they are enacted” (Farneth 2023, 27). For this reason, first-person narration can help to clarify what is at stake in religious ethics as a social practice.
A given religion may find that some of its moral teachings are not feasible for interaction with the practitioners of other religions and it may have to revise or abandon them for interaction to be possible, but that is an issue that needs to be addressed within the framework of that religion.
- Substantive Definitions
- Functional Definitions
- The “Vocation” of Public Administration
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While this division of the literature assists in situating its contents, the judgments concerning each division may be faulty, as they assume what Griel calls a “substantive definition” of religion (2009, p. 143) which differentiates between “wrongdoing” and “immorality” (or “evil”) conduct. This conduct evidences itself on the part of public admin...
“Functional definitions” of religion – rooted in experience and more inclusive in scope – consider “activities, ideologies, and structures that seem to share features in common with religion even though they are not always designated as such” (p. 143). Thus, although the literature is scant when using substantive definitions of religion, a number o...
Stout’s (2013) synthesis of the discourse concerning this topic indicates that the “literature’s common reference to a professional ethos that guides role conception is captured in the notion of vocation, in the sense of calling.” Defining vocations as “professions that are imbued with a particular ethos,” Stout maintains, “this widely shared sense...
During the twentieth century, much of the literature concerning the topic of religion and public administration indicates that moral values were stripped of their religious denotations. As Wilson’s (1887) “science of administration” and its progeny endeavored to validate secular versions of religious moral values, a new ethos purged most of the lan...
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Religion may be non-ethical and ethics non-relig- ious. The first member of the proposition-that religion may be non-ethical-finds numerous illustrations in the history of the world's religions.
Aug 16, 2022 · 1 INTRODUCTION. In recent years there have been several surges of interest in the idea of philosophy as a way of life. This understanding of philosophy as a practice is often contrasted with philosophy as a purely cerebral or discursive activity.
