Letters from Abu Ghraib, Second Edition

Casteel, Joshua

ISBN 10: 1498233759 / ISBN 13: 9781498233750

Edité par Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017

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Synopsis :

Letters from Abu Ghraib, a collection of email messages sent by Joshua Casteel to his friends and family during his service as a US Army interrogator and Arabic linguist in the 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion, is the raw and intimate record of a solider in moral conflict with his duties. Once a cadet at the US Military Academy at West Point and raised in an Evangelical Christian home, Casteel finds himself stationed at Abu Ghraib prison in the wake of the prisoner abuse scandal. He is troubled by what he is asked to do there, although it is, as he writes, "miles within the bounds of what CNN and the BBC care about." Forced to confront the nature of fundamentalism, both religious and political, Casteel asks himself a fundamental question: "How should I then live?"

À propos des auteurs: Joshua Casteel (1979-2012) received dual MFAs from the University of Iowa's programs in nonfiction and playwriting, and was a student in the University of Chicago's Divinity School at the time of his death. The author of the plays Returns and The Interrogation Room, Casteel's work was staged at London's Royal Court Theatre. His nonfiction was published in Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Point, and elsewhere. After becoming a conscientious objector, Casteel traveled nationally and internationally as an acclaimed speaker on social, political, and theological issues. He was awarded The Bishop Dingman Award from Catholic Peace Ministries and the St. Marcellus Award from Catholic Peace Fellowship for his work toward justice and peace.

Stanley Hauerwas is professor emeritus of ethics at Duke University where he held the Gilbert T. Rowe chair for more than twenty years. Among his numerous publications are Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified (1998) and Living Gently in a Violent World, with Jean Vanier (2008). His latest publication is Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth (University of Virginia Press, 2023).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Letters from Abu Ghraib, Second Edition
Éditeur : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Date d'édition : 2017
Reliure : HRD
Etat : New
Edition : 2ème Édition