"This erudite and meticulous study in what Yearley appealingly calls the comparative philosophy of religious flourishings is a significant contribution to cross-cultural philosophy of religion and virtue theory. Yearley is methodologically inventive (perhaps one of the chief reasons why Alisdair MacIntyre in an early promotional blurb calls the book 'indispensably useful') and analytically unstinting, bringing to the comparative study of human excellences a new level of subtlety." ~ from the review