TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Richard Brian
TI  - Terror, religion, and liberal thought
T2  - The Columbia series on religion and politics
AV  - BL65.V55 M56 2010eb
U1  - 201/.763325 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Violence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Human rights
KW  - War
KW  - Toleration
KW  - RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The problem of religious violence. -- From incomprehension to indignation -- Setting the stage -- Between apologetics and ethnocentrism  -- 9/11 and varieties of social criticism. -- Historical arguments -- Economic arguments -- The relativist argument -- The internalist critique -- Rights to life and security. -- Transparent wrongfulness -- Respect for dignity and moral subjectivity -- Moral agency and the logical entailment of rights -- Toleration, equality, and the burdens of judgment. -- Reasons for toleration -- Submission and respect -- Implications of toleration for others -- Respect and recognition. -- Recognition respect and appraisal respect -- Hermeneutical criticism and the politics of difference -- On benefit-of-the-doubt respect -- Religion, dialogue, and human rights. -- Islamizing human rights -- Fitra as grounds for respect -- Special and general divine command morality -- Liberal social criticism and the ethics of belief. -- On the priority of religion to ethics -- On thick and thin morality -- On proximity and distance  -- Appendix 1:  The right to war and self-defense. -- Collective defense: reductive and analogical strategies -- The right of national security -- Appendix 2: Is attacking the Taliban and al Qaeda justified? -- Just-War Doctrine -- On attacking Afghanistan
N2  - Richard B. Miller returns to the basic tenets of liberalism to divine an ethical response to religious extremism. He questions how we should think about the claims and aspirations of political religions, especially when they conflict so deeply with liberal norms and practices, and he suggests how liberal critics can speak confidently in ways that respect cultural and religious difference. --from publisher description
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