The Practices of Happiness : : Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing / / Ian Steedman, John R. Atherton and Elaine Graham.
There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Milton, United Kingdom : : Taylor & Francis,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgement; Introductory essay: Developing an overview as context and future; Part I: Political economy; 1 Economic theory and happiness; 2 Happiness, welfare and capabilities; 3 Happiness through thrift: The contribution of business to human wellbeing; 4 Happiness, work and Christian theology; 5 Happiness isn't working, but it should be; 6 Challenging inequality in a post-scarcity era: Christian contributions to egalitarian trends; 7 Fair Trade and human wellbeing; Part II: Contributions to other social sciences. 8 Religion and happiness: Perspectives from the psychology of religion, positive psychology and empirical theology9 Ethnographic insights into happiness; 10 Institutions, organizations and wellbeing; 11 Religion, family form and the question of happiness; 12 Mental health, spirituality and religion; 13 The 'one in the morning' knock: Exploring the connections between faith, participation and wellbeing; 14 Crime, wellbeing and society: R.