Religion and Social Criticism

Bharat Ranganathan is the Brooks Assistant Professor of Social Justice and Religion at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches religious ethics. He is the co-editor of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).Caroline Anglim is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Professionalism at the Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, GA. She teaches professional ethics and topics in the medical humanities.

• 1. On Religious Ethics and Social Criticism.- Part I. Humanism, Human Dignity, and Social Criticism.- 2. Which Criticism and Whose Humanism?.- 3. Christian Humanism on the Individual and Human Dignity.- 4. Social Criticism & Islamic Ethics After 9/11: How Muslim Anthropologies Matter.- Part II. Religious Ethics, Practical Ethics, and Social Criticism.- 5. Inhuman Weapons: Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and the Moral Salience of Culture to Their Use in Central Asia.- 6. Prophetic Social Criticism, Solidarity, and Just War.- 7. Moral Distress and the Intrapsychic Hazards of Medical Practice.- 8. Recognition on Demand: A Study of Religion in Conscience Protection Clauses.- 9. The Grieving Storyteller: Grief Narratives as a Source of Moral Reflection.- Part III. Religious Ethics, Methods, and Social Criticism.- 10. Political Hostility and Respect for Human Dignity.- 11. Normativity and Solidarity.