RT Article
T1 Moving Beyond Practice: Christian Ethics, Ethnography, and the Promise of Anthropology’s “Ethical Turn”
JF Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
VO 44
IS 2
SP 359
OP 379
A1 Williams, Sara A.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/190837439X
AB Anthropology’s “ethical turn” opens space for dialogue with Christian ethicists engaged in the “ethnographic turn” using a common virtue-inflected language and set of concerns. While moral theologian Michael Banner has called for such a dialogue, there has been a lack of cross-pollination between Banner’s account and the broader ethnographic turn, which has turned to the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu as its main social scientific interlocuter. In this essay, I argue that the limits of practice theory call for a diversification of social scientific conversation partners in the ethnographic turn. I demonstrate how the anthropology of ethics offers one auspicious way forward in its ability to account for moral agency in everyday life.
DO 10.5840/jsce2024822115