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Religious ethics
Garry Trompf | University of Sydney An Element on the role of violence in the traditional religions of the Pacific Ilands (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) and on violent activity in islander religious life after the opening of Oceania to the modern world.
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Elements in Religion and Violence
75pp Jan. 2022 9781108731164 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108584333
Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction
Jem Bloomfield | University of Nottingham Witchcraft and paganism exert an insistent pressure from the margins of midcentury British detective fiction. This Element investigates the appearance of witchcraft and paganism in the novels of four of the most popular female detective authors of the era: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and Gladys Mitchell.
Elements in Magic
75pp Jul. 2022 9781009073998 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009072878
Witchcraft and the Modern Roman Catholic Church
Francis Young This Element examines hierarchical and clerical understandings of witchcraft within the contemporary Roman Catholic church. It explores whether it is possible to adopt any kind of coherent approach to a phenomenon appraised so differently across different cultures that the church’s responses in one context are likely to seem irrelevant in another.
Elements in Magic
75pp Jan. 2022 9781108948753 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108953337
Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics
Stephen Duckett A necessary book for healthcare professionals and theologians struggling with moral questions about rationing in healthcare. This book outlines a Christian ethical basis for how decisions about health care funding and priority-setting ought to be made.
New Studies in Christian Ethics
350pp Jan. 2023 9781009260664 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009260640
Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology
Victoria Lorrimar A cross-disciplinary theological engagement with proposals for the technological enhancement of humans, including radical life extension, mind-uploading, mood enhancement and moral enhancement. This work draws on metaphor studies, cognitive sciences, and literary studies to develop an account of human creativity in relation to divine creativity.
300pp May. 2022 9781316515020 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009091824
Lying and Truthfulness
A Thomistic Perspective Stewart Clem | Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis This book draws on the thought of Thomas Aquinas to provide an innovative approach to the ethics of lying and truthfulness. It offers a definitive interpretation of Aquinas’s thought on the morality of lying, and it makes a novel contribution to theological ethics.
350pp Feb. 2023 9781009261401 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009261418
Mark Douglas Explicates the way the Christian just war tradition shaped modernity and modernity’s blindness to the interpenetration of nature and politics. This book sits uniquely at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics.
350pp May. 2022 9781009098939 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009106610
The Ethics of Tainted Legacies
Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts Karen V. Guth | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts This book identifies “tainted legacies” as a pressing moral problem and constructs a typology of responses to compromised thinkers, traditions, and institutions. It is of value to general audiences and scholars in the humanities and social sciences who confront legacies tarnished by the traumas of slavery, racism, and sexual violence.
300pp Jul. 2022 9781009100359 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009110907
