Religion and Justice in the War Over Bosnia

by G. Scott Davis (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers, working in ethics, religion and history, to explore moral and religious issues that underlie the violence in Bosnia. ********************************************************* This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers to explore the moral and religious issues that underlie the violence and atrocities in Bosnia. From diverse academic and philosophical perspectives, the works of Jean Bethke Elshtain, James Turner Johnson, Michael Sells, John Kelsay, and G. Scott Davis will inform not just scholars of ethics, politics and religion, but everyone concerned with the prospects for justice in the post Cold War world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136668067
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	404 KB

About the Author

G. Scott Davis

Table of Contents

Introduction, G. Scott Davis; Chapter 1 Religion, History, and Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovinal, Michael Sells; Chapter 2 Nationalism and Self-Determination: The Bosnian Tragedy, Jean Bethke Elshtain; Chapter 3 War for Cities and Noncombatant Immunity in the Bosnian Conflict, James Turner Johnson; Chapter 4 Bosnia, the United States, and the Just War Tradition, G. Scott Davis; Chapter 5 Bosnia and the Muslim Critique of Modernity, John Kelsay;

Editorial Reviews

The introduction and five essays in this anthology consider the Bosnian war from the viewpoint of the theoretical "just war" tradition. Well-known theorists such as Paul Ramsey and Michael Walzer find little moral validity in Serbian justifications for the war and much cause for condemnation. Readers may find great value in the book's parenthetical themes, including use of the "Kosovo myth" as a pretext for genocide, the moral problem of siege warfare in a "just war," and the Muslim critique of Western rationality as a source of war. Nevertheless, the anthology suffers for the absence of a conclusion or documentary appendixes. A more comprehensive view emerges from This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia (LJ 10/1/96). Recommended for larger university libraries and specialized collections. [See also Michael Sells's The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia, LJ 10/1/96.Ed.]Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ., Erie

Library Journal

"These five essays are all worth reading more than once, for the new and unique insight they provide into the Bosnian conflict." — The Boston Book Review
"These five essays are all worth reading more than once, for the new and unique insight they provide into the Bosnian conflict." — History

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