The religious in responses to mass atrocity : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Thomas Brudholm, Thomas Cushman.

Proceedings of a conference held May 12-13, 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity / Thomas Brudholm -- Part I Between Necessity and Impossibility: The Role of Religion in the Face of Atrocity -- Religious Rhetoric in Responses to Atrocity / Jennifer L. Geddes -- The Limit of Ethics - The Ethics of the Limit / Arne Grøn -- 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 -- Can We Punish the Perpetrators of Atrocities? / Antony Duff -- The Ethics of Forgiveness and the Doctrine of Just War: A Religious View of Righting Atrocious Wrongs / Nigel Biggar -- On the Advocacy of Forgiveness after Mass Atrocities / Thomas Brudholm -- Part III Sociologies of the Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocities -- Making Whole: The Ethics and Politics of "Coming to Terms with the Past" / John Torpey -- When Faith Meets History: The Influence of Religion on Transitional Justice / Daniel Philpott -- Genocidal Rupture and Performative Repair in Global Civil Society: Reconsidering the Discourse of Apology in the Face of Mass Atrocity / Thomas Cushman -- Violence, Human Rights, and Piety: Cosmopolitanism versus Virtuous Exclusion in Response to Atrocity / Bryan S. Turner.