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Regimes of Happiness
Comparative and Historical Studies
Series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
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Regimes of Happiness is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfilment. It examines the divergent moral, ethical, and religious traditions as well as the conflicting understanding of the meaning of the 'good life'. Presented in...
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Description
Regimes of Happiness is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfilment. It examines the divergent moral, ethical, and religious traditions as well as the conflicting understanding of the meaning of the 'good life'.
Presented in two parts, Regimes of Happiness provides a historical view of the way in which Western societies, the descendants of the Latin Roman Empire, created languages and institutions that established specific and occasionally antithetical conceptions of a fulfilled human life or 'happiness' in the first part.
The second part explores how non-Western societies and non-Christian religions have conceived and established their own ideals of human perfection.
Regimes of Happiness is a critical reflection on modern notions of happiness, which are typically focused on individual feelings of pleasure.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781839998416
Publisher: Anthem Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Anthem Press
Contributors:
- Edited by Bryan S Turner
- Edited by Yuri Contreras-Vejar
- Edited by Joanna Tice Jen
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 374g
Pages: 276
About the Author
Yuri Contreras-Vejar is professor of sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. He is also a member of the Committee for the Study of Religion at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.
Joanna Tice Jen is a member of the political science faculty at Las Positas College, USA. She received her PhD in political science from the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, in 2017.
Bryan S. Turner is professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University, emeritus professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, and honorary professor, Social Science Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany. He won the Max Planck Award in 2015.
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