Religious Faith, Torture, and Our National Soul
This volume of collected essays, reflections, eye-witness reports, and invited responses offers a comprehensive moral challenge to torture and to the specific U.S. policies that allowed abuse to happen. The book grew out of a conference held at Mercer University, September 11–12, 2008, to mark the s...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2010, Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 585-587 |
| Review of: | Religious faith, torture, and our national soul (Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2010) (Barnett, Barbara)
Religious faith, torture, and our national soul (Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2010) (Barnett, Barbara) |
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| Summary: | This volume of collected essays, reflections, eye-witness reports, and invited responses offers a comprehensive moral challenge to torture and to the specific U.S. policies that allowed abuse to happen. The book grew out of a conference held at Mercer University, September 11–12, 2008, to mark the seventh anniversary of 9/11. The conference was cosponsored by Evangelicals for Human Rights and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture., The book brings together a mix of scholars and practitioners. The academic fields represented include Christian ethics, law, theology, and Islamic studies. The practitioners include career military officers, clergy within a variety of faith traditions, human rights activists, and lawyers. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq090 |