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Exile and embrace : contemporary religious discourse on the death penalty in America / Anthony Santoro.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781555538187
  • 1555538185
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exile and embrace.DDC classification:
  • 261.8/33660973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV8694 .S235 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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: "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 perpetrators and much more to do with those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he convincingly argues, we should focus our attention not on the perpetrators and 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"--Provided by publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)598530

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 perpetrators and much more to do with those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he convincingly argues, we should focus our attention not on the perpetrators and 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"--Provided by publisher.

Print version record.