03579nam a2200517Ka 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020001800124020001500142020003500157020003200192035002100224035001800245050002500263072002500288082002000313049000900333100003400342245008700376260005100463300003400514490004900548505131700597520042501914504005102339588004702390650003302437650003402470650002402504650001602528650001802544650002802562650003502590650005102625655002202676776018602698830004602884856008602930910001603016994001203032999001703044ocn750183132OCoLC20200709055411.0m        d        cr cnu---unuuu110907s2010    nyu     ob    001 0 eng d  aN$TcN$T  z9780231150989  z0231150989  a9780231521864 (electronic bk.)  a0231521863 (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)750183132  a384867b(N$T) 4aBL65.V55bM56 2010eb 7aRELx1050002bisacsh04a201/.763325222  aN$TA1 aMiller, Richard Brian,d1953-10aTerror, religion, and liberal thoughth[electronic resource] /cRichard B. Miller.  aNew York :bColumbia University Press,cc2010.  a1 online resource (x, 227 p.)1 aThe Columbia series on religion and politics0 aThe 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.  aRichard 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  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aViolencexReligious aspects. 0aTerrorismxReligious aspects. 0aPolitical violence. 0aLiberalism. 0aHuman rights. 0aWarxReligious aspects. 0aTolerationxReligious aspects. 7aRELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies2bisacsh 4aElectronic books.08iPrint version:aMiller, Richard Brian, 1953-tTerror, religion, and liberal thought.dNew York : Columbia University Press, c2010z9780231150989w(DLC)  2010022780w(OCoLC)635463697 0aColumbia series on religion and politics.403NetLibraryuhttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=384867  acpp1723AUTO  a02bN$T  c50532d50532