Exile and Embrace : Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty /

"With passion and precision, Exile and Embrace examines the key elements of the religious debates over capital punishment and shows how they reflect the values and self-understandings of contemporary Americans. Santoro demonstrates that capital punishment has relatively little to do with the pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Santoro, Anthony R., 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Capital punishment > Religious aspects.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Aspect religieux.
Capital punishment > United States > Religious aspects.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Between moral certainty and morally certain : the churches discuss the death penalty
  • Between the innocent man and Osama bin Laden : the believer and the death penalty, as viewed from the pew
  • The exile : instantiated and revealed
  • The bloggers' exegesis : from the death penalty to taxonomies of the executive
  • Death, difference, and conscience
  • Opening the space : from exile to embrace
  • Conclusion.

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