ABSTRACT

Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics is an unexpected title for a book by the Most Reverend Richard Holloway, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. More surprising still is his argument: that we should find good human reasons for our moral stance and not rely on divine rubber stamping. If a religious leader can argue that we should keep religion out of ethics, may an anthropologist likewise argue that we keep culture out of morality?