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The religious in responses to mass atrocity [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Thomas Brudholm, Thomas Cushman.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 281 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780511517815 (electronic bk.)
  • 0511517815 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religious in responses to mass atrocity.DDC classification:
  • 201/.76332 22
LOC classification:
  • BL65.V55 R56 2009eb
Online resources:
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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Proceedings of a conference held May 12-13, 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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