The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity

An assessment of the attempts to bring religious allegiances and perspectives to bear in responses to the mass atrocities of our time.

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; 2. The limit of ethics - the ethics of the limit Arne Grøn; 3. The intolerability of meaning: myth, faith and reason in philosophical responses to moral atrocity Peter Dews; 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; 5. On the advocacy of forgiveness after mass atrocities Thomas Brudholm; 6. The ethics of forgiveness and the doctrine of just war: a religious view of righting atrocious wrongs Nigel Biggar; 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; 8. When faith meets history: the influence of religion on transitional justice Daniel Philpot; 9. Genocidal rupture and performative repair in global civil society: reconsidering the discourse of apology in the face of mass atrocity Thomas Cushman; 10. Violence, human rights and piety: cosmopolitanism versus virtuous exclusion Bryan Turner.