The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Book

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity Thomas Brudholm Thomas Cushman 1

Part I Between Necessity and Impossibility: The Role of Religion in the Face of Atrocity

1 Religious Rhetoric in Responses to Atrocity Jennifer L. Geddes 21

2 The Limit of Ethics - The Ethics of the Limit Arne Gr&ophi;n 38

3 The Intolerability of Meaning: Myth, Faith, and Reason in Philosophical Responses to Moral Atrocity Peter Dews 60

Part II Does It Help to Import Religious Ideas: Reflections on Punishment, War, and Forgiveness

4 Can We Punish the Perpetrators of Atrocities? Antony Duff 79

5 The Ethics of Forgiveness and the Doctrine of Just War: A Religious View of Righting Atrocious Wrongs Nigel Biggar 105

6 On the Advocacy of Forgiveness after Mass Atrocities Thomas Brudholm 124

Part III Sociologies of the Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocities

7 Making Whole: The Ethics and Politics of "Coming to Terms with the Past" John Torpey 157

8 When Faith Meets History: The Influence of Religion on Transitional Justice Daniel Philpott 174

9 Genocidal Rupture and Performative Repair in Global Civil Society: Reconsidering the Discourse of Apology in the Face of Mass Atrocity Thomas Cushman 213

10 Violence, Human Rights, and Piety: Cosmopolitanism versus Virtuous Exclusion in Response to Atrocity Bryan S. Turner 242

Index 265