| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This book examines the religious debates and dimensions of the death penalty in America. Here, the author demonstrates that capital punishment has relatively little to do with the perpetrators and much more to do with those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he argues, we should focus our attention not on the perpetrators and the victims, as is typically the case in debates pro and con about the death penalty, but on ourselves and on the mechanisms that we use to impose or oppose the death penalty |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2013) |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States -- Religious aspects
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Capital punishment -- Religious aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781555538187 |
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1555538185 |
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