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Doing Justice to Mercy: Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice (Studies in Religion and Culture)
Jonathan Rothchild (Ed.)
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Description for Doing Justice to Mercy: Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice (Studies in Religion and Culture)
Paperback. It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. This book challenges this assumption by presenting the reader with an urgent conversation between the law and religion that yields a constructive approach, both theoretically and practically, to the complex role of mercy in our legal process. Editor(s): Rothchild, Jonathan; Boulton, Matthew Myer; Jung, Kevin. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6; HRLP5; JKVP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 299.
It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. Religion and ethics articulate complex systems of moral reasoning that concern norms, deliberation of ends, cultivation of disposition, and transformation of moral agency. Law, in contrast, seeks to govern human conduct through procedural justice, rights, and public good. ""Doing Justice to Mercy"" challenges this assumption by presenting the reader with an urgent conversation between the law and religion that yields a constructive approach, both theoretically and practically, to the complex role of mercy in our legal process. Authored by legal practitioners, activists, and theorists in ... Read more
It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. Religion and ethics articulate complex systems of moral reasoning that concern norms, deliberation of ends, cultivation of disposition, and transformation of moral agency. Law, in contrast, seeks to govern human conduct through procedural justice, rights, and public good. ""Doing Justice to Mercy"" challenges this assumption by presenting the reader with an urgent conversation between the law and religion that yields a constructive approach, both theoretically and practically, to the complex role of mercy in our legal process. Authored by legal practitioners, activists, and theorists in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Religion and Culture
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926438
SKU
V9780813926438
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About Jonathan Rothchild (Ed.)
Jonathan Rothchild is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Matthew Myer Boulton is Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching at Andover Newton Theological School. Kevin Jung is Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at the Wake Forest University Divinity School.
Reviews for Doing Justice to Mercy: Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice (Studies in Religion and Culture)
An engaging, vital book, well written and pertinent to a wide range of theoretical and practical issues in the shaping of policy in this society's treatment of persons deemed 'criminals.'... This book suggests that wrongdoers deserve forms of justice tempered by mercy and mercy inclusive of some level of punishment that falls short of revenge. Currently, many Americans like revenge. ... Read more