Abstract

In an effort to understand how religious ethicists carry the practice and tradition of social criticism forward, the contributors to this volume investigate the unique religious resources that religious ethicists draw upon to evaluate social practices and the methods of humanistic scholarship that encourage dialectical exchange about matters of religion and ethics in our multicultural politics. While we draw from diverse intellectual, methodological, and religious commitments, we all have academic and personal connections to Richard B. Miller, with the diversity of our perspectives and projects reflecting the breadth of his own interests. Individually and collectively, our chapters give textual shape to the robust interdisciplinary conversations that Miller’s research and teaching have inspired over the course of his career, especially those pertaining to the content of and justification for humanistic scholarship. Throughout this volume, we aim to offer guidelines for and advances within the study of religion through social criticism.