The Cultural Turn

Empirical Studies and their Implications

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14760779
AutoresRoss Moret (autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen47
Número1
Páginas180-191
Fecha de publicación2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jore.12254
OpenAlexW2915569931
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas24

This essay uses empirical studies to engage Richard Miller’s advocacy of a “cultural turn” in the study of religious ethics found in Friends and Other Strangers . The particular kind of empirical research I highlight here, cultural cognition, emphasizes the ways that belonging to a cultural group influences one’s reasoning when faced with controversial issues involving disputed facts. This approach underscores the significance of the cultural turn, but it also raises some important challenges for Miller’s accounts of moral psychology and public reason. I work to elucidate what those challenges are and point to some ways that taking cultural cognition seriously might open up fresh avenues for addressing perennial ethical issues

Cognition · Cultural group selection · Cultural turn · Empirical evidence · Empirical research · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Miller · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology