The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction: The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity......Page 17
Clarification of Terms......Page 22
Overview of the Chapters......Page 25
Notes......Page 32
References......Page 33
Part I: Between Necessity and Impossibility: The Role of Religion in the Face of Atrocity
......Page 35
Introduction......Page 37
The Double Bind of Speaking about Atrocity......Page 38
The Turn to Religious Language in Responses to Atrocity......Page 41
Conclusion......Page 48
Notes......Page 52
Ethics?......Page 54
Philosophy?......Page 55
Limits to Humans, for Humans......Page 56
Morally Horrifying......Page 60
Ethics of Forgiveness: Beyond Ethics?......Page 62
Ethics of Resentment? Ethics and Time......Page 64
Infinity and Religion, or Beyond Imagination? Beyond Understanding?......Page 67
Ambiguity of Religion......Page 69
Reformulating the Normative Dimension......Page 70
Notes......Page 72
References......Page 74
3 The Intolerability of Meaning: Myth, Faith, and Reason in Philosophical Responses to Moral Atrocity......Page 76
Notes......Page 90
Part II: Does It Help to Import Religious Ideas: Reflections on Punishment, War, and Forgiveness
......Page 93
4 Can We Punish the Perpetrators of Atrocities?......Page 95
Punishment, Communication, and Inclusion......Page 96
Limits to Community?......Page 102
Religious and Secular Conceptions of Community......Page 109
Notes......Page 116
5 The Ethics of Forgiveness and the Doctrine of Just War: A Religious View of Righting Atrocious Wrongs......Page 121
I......Page 123
II......Page 126
III......Page 131
IV......Page 132
V......Page 133
VI......Page 135
VII......Page 136
Notes......Page 137
6 On the Advocacy of Forgiveness after Mass Atrocities......Page 140
Only Forgiveness......Page 143
Negative Emotions......Page 145
Unforgiving Victims......Page 148
Forgetting the Victim......Page 151
Praise, Sacralization, and Redemption......Page 158
Religion and the Advocacy of Forgiveness......Page 162
Notes......Page 164
References......Page 166
Part III: Sociologies of the Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocities
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The Problem of the Past......Page 173
Lincoln and Emancipation......Page 177
Johnson and Affirmative Action......Page 179
The Rhetoric of Reparations......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 186
Notes......Page 187
8 When Faith Meets History: The Influence of Religion on Transitional Justice......Page 190
Institutions for Transitional Justice......Page 191
Behind Choices of Transitional Justice......Page 194
How Does Religion Affect Transitional Justice?......Page 197
Behind Religious Influence......Page 199
Religious Actors and Transitional Justice: Cases......Page 206
Anomalies: Apparent and Real......Page 218
Conclusions......Page 221
References......Page 223
Acts of Apology......Page 229
The Pattern of Response to Genocide......Page 233
The Clinton Apology for the Rwandan Genocide......Page 234
The United Nations and Kofi Annan's Apology to Rwanda......Page 242
Unhappy Performances: Apology and the Incommensurate Cultural Logics of Modernity......Page 251
Notes......Page 254
References......Page 256
Introduction: Fellow Feeling and Its Limitations......Page 258
Human Rights and Human Suffering......Page 261
Evil and Human Free Will......Page 262
History, Memory, and Forgiveness......Page 267
Pietization......Page 270
Conclusion: The Price of Piety......Page 276
References......Page 277
Index......Page 281