Exile & Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty - Couverture souple

Santoro, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555538177 ISBN 13 : 9781555538170

Editeur : Northeastern University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

An important book that will appeal to those involved in the death penalty debate and to general religious studies and American studies scholars, as well.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ANTHONY SANTORO is a postdoctoral fellow at Heidelberg University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northeastern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555538177
• ISBN 13: 9781555538170
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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• Personne responsable: non disponible