KIERAN FLANAGAN is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol. His publications include Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentation of the Holy (1991) The Enchantment of Sociology: a Study of Theology and Culture (1996) and he is co-editor (with Peter C.Jupp) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996). - PETER C. JUPP is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. A United Reformed Minister, he is currently minister of Peterborough Westgate Church. He is co-editor (with Kieran Flanagan) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996), (with Glennys Howarth) Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal (1996), (with Tony Rogers) Interpreting Death (1997) and (with Clare Gittings) Death in England: an Illustrated History (1999).

'These papers...are...impeccably edited...They occupy the fertile borderlands between sociology, theology and philosophy, and should do much to reduce the mutual demonizing and boundary-maintenance disputes that so often plague relationships between these disciplines.' - Graham Howes, New Blackfriars '[Kieran Flanagan and Peter Jupp] have succeeded in giving a wider audience to a variety of stimulating papers by British sociologists of religion...this collection is well worth reading.' - Robin Gill, Journal of Contemporary Religion

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; K.Flanagan Classical Thinking for a Postmodern World: Alasdair MacIntyre and the Moral Critique of the Present; P.McMylor Disenchantment and Virtue: An Essay on Max Weber ; K.Tester Virtue Ethics, Justice and Religion in Multicultural Societies; D.Herbert Ethics and the Person: Risk, Moral Recognition and Modernity; C.Davies & M.Neal Faith, Ethics: Young People and Late Modernity; S.Collins Vice and Virtue or Vice Versa: A Sociology of Being Good; K.Flanagan Contemplating Virtue: St Teresa as a Challenge to Social Theory; M.Archer Virtue Ethics and Celibacy: A Hindu Perspective; R.Barot New Age Utopianism, Cultural Extremities and Modernity; P.Heelas From Religion to Ethics: Quaker Amillennialism; P.Dandelion The Ethos of Modern Apocalyptic Stories: The Use of Judaeo-Christian Narrative in Popular Film; J.Lindohf Hope Against Hope; W.W.Miller Virtue Ethics and Death: The Final Arrangements; P.C.Jupp Conclusion; K.Flanagan Bibliography Index

KIERAN FLANAGAN is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol. His publications include Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentation of the Holy (1991) The Enchantment of Sociology: a Study of Theology and Culture (1996) and he is co-editor (with Peter C.Jupp) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996). - PETER C. JUPP is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. A United Reformed Minister, he is currently minister of Peterborough Westgate Church. He is co-editor (with Kieran Flanagan) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996), (with Glennys Howarth) Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal (1996), (with Tony Rogers) Interpreting Death (1997) and (with Clare Gittings) Death in England: an Illustrated History (1999).

'These papers...are...impeccably edited...They occupy the fertile borderlands between sociology, theology and philosophy, and should do much to reduce the mutual demonizing and boundary-maintenance disputes that so often plague relationships between these disciplines.' - Graham Howes, New Blackfriars '[Kieran Flanagan and Peter Jupp] have succeeded in giving a wider audience to a variety of stimulating papers by British sociologists of religion...this collection is well worth reading.' - Robin Gill, Journal of Contemporary Religion

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; K.Flanagan Classical Thinking for a Postmodern World: Alasdair MacIntyre and the Moral Critique of the Present; P.McMylor Disenchantment and Virtue: An Essay on Max Weber ; K.Tester Virtue Ethics, Justice and Religion in Multicultural Societies; D.Herbert Ethics and the Person: Risk, Moral Recognition and Modernity; C.Davies & M.Neal Faith, Ethics: Young People and Late Modernity; S.Collins Vice and Virtue or Vice Versa: A Sociology of Being Good; K.Flanagan Contemplating Virtue: St Teresa as a Challenge to Social Theory; M.Archer Virtue Ethics and Celibacy: A Hindu Perspective; R.Barot New Age Utopianism, Cultural Extremities and Modernity; P.Heelas From Religion to Ethics: Quaker Amillennialism; P.Dandelion The Ethos of Modern Apocalyptic Stories: The Use of Judaeo-Christian Narrative in Popular Film; J.Lindohf Hope Against Hope; W.W.Miller Virtue Ethics and Death: The Final Arrangements; P.C.Jupp Conclusion; K.Flanagan Bibliography Index

KIERAN FLANAGAN is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol. His publications include Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentation of the Holy (1991) The Enchantment of Sociology: a Study of Theology and Culture (1996) and he is co-editor (with Peter C.Jupp) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996). - PETER C. JUPP is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. A United Reformed Minister, he is currently minister of Peterborough Westgate Church. He is co-editor (with Kieran Flanagan) of Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996), (with Glennys Howarth) Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal (1996), (with Tony Rogers) Interpreting Death (1997) and (with Clare Gittings) Death in England: an Illustrated History (1999).

'These papers...are...impeccably edited...They occupy the fertile borderlands between sociology, theology and philosophy, and should do much to reduce the mutual demonizing and boundary-maintenance disputes that so often plague relationships between these disciplines.' - Graham Howes, New Blackfriars '[Kieran Flanagan and Peter Jupp] have succeeded in giving a wider audience to a variety of stimulating papers by British sociologists of religion...this collection is well worth reading.' - Robin Gill, Journal of Contemporary Religion

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; K.Flanagan Classical Thinking for a Postmodern World: Alasdair MacIntyre and the Moral Critique of the Present; P.McMylor Disenchantment and Virtue: An Essay on Max Weber ; K.Tester Virtue Ethics, Justice and Religion in Multicultural Societies; D.Herbert Ethics and the Person: Risk, Moral Recognition and Modernity; C.Davies & M.Neal Faith, Ethics: Young People and Late Modernity; S.Collins Vice and Virtue or Vice Versa: A Sociology of Being Good; K.Flanagan Contemplating Virtue: St Teresa as a Challenge to Social Theory; M.Archer Virtue Ethics and Celibacy: A Hindu Perspective; R.Barot New Age Utopianism, Cultural Extremities and Modernity; P.Heelas From Religion to Ethics: Quaker Amillennialism; P.Dandelion The Ethos of Modern Apocalyptic Stories: The Use of Judaeo-Christian Narrative in Popular Film; J.Lindohf Hope Against Hope; W.W.Miller Virtue Ethics and Death: The Final Arrangements; P.C.Jupp Conclusion; K.Flanagan Bibliography Index