In preparation for your participation in this conversation, Paul recommends you to follow one two following links to have an idea of what is meant by ‘human flourishing’, so that we can all speak from our own experience of any practices that have helped enable us to flourish.
Paul Overend reviews. Paul-Francois Tremlett is a senior lecturer in religious studies at the Open University. This short book is introductory, written for both A-Level sociology students (p.vii) and a general reader, and takes a sociological approach to its material. It has accessibility in mind, referencing key sociological concepts and figures (in shaded blocks), with a helpful short glossary of terms from Marxist writers and cultural theory (pp.65-68), and questions at the end of chapters for group discussion.
Paul Overend takes an overview of Cupitt’s framing of subjectivity as historically situated and contingent, and his ethics as involving both solar personal ethics, spirituality and humanitarian social ethics. He considers the subject’s agency in the struggle for social change, before raising some questions for evaluating Cupitt’s thinking.