Rules and ethics : perspectives from anthropology and history /: perspectives from anthropology and history. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Morgan Clarke, Emily Corran.
• Editors: Clarke, Morgan, 1972-; Corran, Emily
• Contents: Introduction: rules and ethics – Morgan Clarke and Emily CorranPart I: Rules enabling moral life 1 Conscience is tradition: classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism – Donald R. Davis, Jr.2 Manners and morals: codes of civility in early modern England – Martin Ingram3 Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – Emily CorranPart II: Rules and virtue 4 Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics – Rebecca Langlands5 ‘For the love of God’? The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe – Nicole Reinhardt6 Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) – Emanuel SchaeublinPart III: Rules about rules 7 Tactics of transformation: self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism – Jan Lorenz8 Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab -law tradition – Talal Al-Azem9 Comparing casuistries: rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity – Morgan ClarkeAfterword – James LaidlawIndex
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.37; Social norms; Social ethics; Social norms -- History; Social ethics -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526148896; 9781526148919
• Related ISBNs: 9781526148902
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