Religious faith, torture, and our national soul / edited by David P. Gushee, Jillian Hickman Zimmer, and J. Drew Zimmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gushee, David P., 1962-

Zimmer, J. Drew.

Zimmer, Jillian Hickman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torture--Government policy--United States.

Torture.

Torture--Government policy.

Terrorism--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Torture--Moral and ethical aspects.

United States.

Torture--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Torture--Religious aspects.

Torture--United States.

Terrorism--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Terrorism.

Human rights--Religious aspects.

Human rights.

Human rights--United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv unnumbered pages, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2010.

Summary:

Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 11-12, 2008 at Mercer University--Preface and Acknowledgements.

Contents:

Part I. Torture and U. S. Foreign Policy : Looking Back :

1. Torture after 9/11: the road to Abu Ghraib / Karen J. Greenburg

Response to Karen J. Greenburg / Ronald P. Mahurin

2. How the US military responded to the drift toward torture / Donald J. Guter

Response to Donald J. Guter by Steven N. Xenakis

3. What torture does to human beings / Dianna Ortiz, Douglas A. Johnson

Response to Sister Dianna Ortiz and Doublas A. Johnson / Denise Massey

4. What the torture debate reveals about American Christianity / David P. Gushee

Response 1 to David P. Gushee / Brian Walt

Response 2 to David P. Gushee / M. Cathleen Kaveny

Response 3 to David P. Gushee / Mohammed Elsanousi

5. Guantánamo : an assessment and reflection from those who have been there / John A. Chandler, Mark Denbeaux, Gita Gutierrez, Thomas Wilner

Part II. Recovering Our Moral Bearings : Where Do We Go From Here? :

6. Sermons and Reflections :

Sacred bodies : inspirited flesh / Cheryl Bridges Johns

Imagine the sojourner / Fleming Rutledge

Tortured truth / Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

7. The religious roots of human rights / Glen H. Stassen

Response 1 to Glen H. Stassen / Matthew Norman

Response 2 to Glen H. Stassen / Graham B. Walker Jr.

8. Healing the (American) Christian relationship with the Muslim world / Rick Love

Response to Rick Love / Mahan Mirza

9. Violence finds refuge in falshood / George Hunsinger

Response 1 to George Hunsinger / Elizabeth Bounds

Response 2 to George Hunsinger / Larry McSwain

10. Insights from the next generation :

Religious torture in the war on terror / Michael Peppard

Heroism in the age of terror : the dark knight of the American soul / Kathryn Reklis

Prisons outside the kingdom : a theological reflection on CIA black sites / Natalie Wigg-Stevenson

11. National security, torture, and a practical way forward / Rachel Lauer

Appendix : Results of Mercer University/Faith in Public Life poll on Southern evangelical attitudes toward torture

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780881462036

0881462039

OCLC:

500820419

Publisher Number:

99942757493