The religious in responses to mass atrocity interdisciplinary perspectives / [electronic resource] : edited by Thomas Brudholm, Thomas Cushman. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (xiii, 281 p.)

Proceedings of a conference held May 12-13, 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious rhetoric in responses to atrocity / The limit of ethics, the ethics of the limit / The intolerability of meaning : myth, faith, and reason in philosophical responses to moral atrocity / Can we punish the perpetrators of atrocities? / The ethics of forgiveness and the doctrine of just war : a religious view of righting atrocious wrongs / On the advocacy of forgiveness after mass atrocities / Making whole : the ethics and politics of "coming to terms with the past" / When faith meets history : the influence of religion on transitional justice / Genocidal rupture and performative repair in global civil society : reconsidering the discourse of apology in the face of mass atrocity / Violence, human rights, and piety : cosmopolitanism versus virtuous exclusion in response to atrocity / Jennifer L. Geddes -- Arne Grøn -- Peter Dews -- Antony Duff -- Nigel Biggar -- Thomas Brudholm -- John Torpey -- Daniel Philpott -- Thomas Cushman -- Bryan S. Turner.

9780511517815 (electronic bk.) 0511517815 (electronic bk.)


Violence--Religious aspects--Congresses.
Atrocities--History--Congresses.


Electronic books.

BL65.V55 / R56 2009eb

201/.76332