The Practices of Happiness
| Titel: | The Practices of Happiness [Elektronische Ressource] : Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | London : Taylor & Francis, 2010 |
| Umfang: | 304 p. |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| RVK-Notation: | Vorliegende Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg.: [The Hague]: OAPEN, - Online-Ressource. |
| ISBN: | 9780415550970 |
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- Notes on contributors
- p. xvi
- Acknowledgement
- p. xix
- Introductory essay: developing an overview as context and future
- p. 1
- Part I
- Political economy
- p. 21
- 1
- Economic theory and happiness
- p. 23
- 2
- Happiness, welfare and capabilities
- p. 42
- 3
- Happiness through thrift: the contribution of business to human wellbeing
- p. 54
- 4
- Happiness, work and Christian theology
- p. 66
- 5
- Happiness isn't working, but it should be
- p. 75
- 6
- Challenging inequality in a post-scarcity era: Christian contributions to egalitarian trends
- p. 86
- 7
- Fair Trade and human wellbeing
- p. 98
- Part II
- Contributions to other social sciences
- p. 111
- 8
- Religion and happiness: perspectives from the psychology of religion, positive psychology and empirical theology
- p. 113
- 9
- Ethnographic insights into happiness
- p. 125
- 10
- Institutions, organizations and wellbeing
- p. 134
- 11
- Religion, family form and the question of happiness
- p. 148
- 12
- Mental health, spirituality and religion
- p. 157
- 13
- The 'one in the morning' knock: exploring the connections between faith, participation and wellbeing
- p. 169
- 14
- Crime, wellbeing and society: reflections on social, 'antisocial' and 'restorative' capital
- p. 184
- 15
- Supporting offenders: a faith-based initiative
- p. 195
- Part III
- Reflections on foundations
- p. 205
- 16
- Human happiness as a common good: clarifying the issues
- p. 207
- 17
- Being well in creation
- p. 216
- 18
- The 'virtuous circle': religion and the practices of happiness
- p. 224
- 19
- Wellbeing or resilience? Blurred encounters between theory and practice
- p. 235
- Bibliography
- p. 245
- Index
- p. 273
