The Impact of 9/11 on Religion and Philosophy: The Day that Changed Everything?

✍ Scribed by Matthew J. Morgan (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Series: The Day that Changed Everything?
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Impact of 9-11 on Religion and Philosophy is the sixth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. This volume features a foreword by John Esposito and contributors include Jean Bethke Elshtain, Philip Yancey, John Milbank, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, John Cobb and Martin Cook.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Aftershocks....Pages 5-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
An Altered Terrain: Engaging Islam in Post-9/11 Academia and the Public Sphere....Pages 19-29
A Struggle for the Soul of a Faith: Spiritual Islam versus Political Islam....Pages 31-50
How Did the U.S. Government Look at Islam after 9/11?....Pages 51-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Prodigal Nation: September 11 and the American Jeremiad....Pages 67-83
Geopolitical Theology: Economy, Religion, and Empire after 9/11....Pages 85-112
The Catholic Conversation since 9/11: A Moral Challenge....Pages 113-124
September 11 and the Jewish Vocabulary of Tragedy....Pages 125-134
September 11: A Hindu Perspective....Pages 135-140
Dialogue and Disagreement in the Christian Community....Pages 141-149
Truth, “Faith,” and 9/11....Pages 151-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Justice: A Post-9/11 Theory....Pages 169-187
Known Unknowns: How Philosophy Has Responded to Fear of the Post-9/11 World....Pages 189-205
Generosity, Terror, and the Good for Humans....Pages 207-220
On Moral Alchemy: A Critical Examination of Post-9/11 U.S. Military Policy....Pages 221-232
The Day the World Changed? Reflections on 9/11 and U.S. National Security Strategy....Pages 233-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Understanding Terrorism and the Limits of Just War Theory....Pages 247-259
The Just War Tradition Faces the Remnants of War....Pages 261-270
Pacifism and Just War Theory after 9/11....Pages 271-280
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
To Debate or Not to Debate: The Question of Torture....Pages 281-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-294

✦ Subjects

Political Science;Political Philosophy;Social Philosophy;Political Theory;Social Aspects of Religion;Terrorism and Political Violence