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The religious in responses to mass atrocity interdisciplinary perspectives
Title
The religious in responses to mass atrocity [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Thomas Brudholm, Thomas Cushman.
ISBN
9780511517815 (electronic bk.)
0511517815 (electronic bk.)
9780511517327
0511517327
9780521518857 (hc : alk. paper)
0521518857
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages)
Notes
Proceedings of a conference held May 12-13, 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Description based on print version record.
Summary
An assessment of the attempts to bring religious allegiances and perspectives to bear in responses to the mass atrocities of our time.
Other formats
Print version: Religious in responses to mass atrocity. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 02, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Religious rhetoric in responses to atrocity / Jennifer L. Geddes
The limit of ethics, the ethics of the limit / Arne Grøn
The intolerability of meaning : myth, faith, and reason in philosophical responses to moral atrocity / Peter Dews
Can we punish the perpetrators of atrocities? / Antony Duff
The ethics of forgiveness and the doctrine of just war : a religious view of righting atrocious wrongs / Nigel Biggar
On the advocacy of forgiveness after mass atrocities / Thomas Brudholm
Making whole : the ethics and politics of "coming to terms with the past" / John Torpey
When faith meets history : the influence of religion on transitional justice / Daniel Philpott
Genocidal rupture and performative repair in global civil society : reconsidering the discourse of apology in the face of mass atrocity / Thomas Cushman
Violence, human rights, and piety : cosmopolitanism versus virtuous exclusion in response to atrocity / Bryan S. Turner.
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