The religious in responses to mass atrocity interdisciplinary perspectives - Brudholm, Thomas, 1969-; Cushman, Thomas, 1959- (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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.
Proceedings of a conference held May 12-13, 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Violence -- Religious aspects -- Congresses; Atrocities -- History -- Congresses; Electronic books