Synopses & Reviews
The Impact of 9-11 on Religion and Philosophy is the sixth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to reflect on one of the most significant events of our time. With forewords by John Esposito and Jean Bethke Elshtain, the volumes contributors include Philip Yancey, John Milbank, Arvind Sharma, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, John Cobb, Martin Cook, and other leading authors.
Review
"An excellent collection of new perspectives for understanding and undertaking measures to apply the lessons from that terrible tragedy.”--John F. Lehman, Chairman, J.F. Lehman & Company, Member, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission)
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“A thoughtful and provocative work sure to stimulate significant conversation for years to come.”--Ravi Zacharias, author and speaker
“This book responds to the challenge posed by the religiously motivated violence of 9/11 to moderate Islam and to main-line Western thinking about religion and its relationship to political life. The authors are solid, the essays probing, the insights offered likely to endure.”--James Turner Johnson, Professor of Religion, Rutgers University
“Rarely does one find a book in which the perspectives offered are as diverse as they are provocative and well grounded. This is an essential read for everyone--citizens, educators, religious and governmental leaders--who want to become more critically, and more creatively, engaged with one of the fundamental issues of our time.”--Sharon D. Welch, Provost and Professor of Religion and Society, Meadville Lombard Theological School
“This volume completes the fascinating series of books on the impact of 9/11 on various areas of the common life. It evokes fresh reflections on the doctrines of ‘just and unjust war, pacifism, and the relationship of universal ethical principles to national sovereignty and para-state violence. This is a valuable contribution to the study of how events do or do not shape ideas, and how comprehensive worldviews interpret historical events.”--Max L. Stackhouse, De Vries Professor of Theology and Public Life Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary
Synopsis
The Impact of 9-11 on Religion and Philosophy is the sixth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. This volume features a foreword by John Esposito and contributors include Jean Bethke Elshtain, Philip Yancey, John Milbank, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, John Cobb and Martin Cook.
Synopsis
Foreword, J.L.Esposito Aftershocks; P.Yancey PART I: ISLAM AND 9/11 An Altered Terrain: Engaging Islam in the Post-9/11 Public Sphere; A.Afsaruddin A Struggle for the Soul of a Faith: Spiritual Islam versus Political Islam; M.Zuhdi Jasser & S.Shahid How Does the U.S. Government Look at Islam since 9/11?; L.Danan & A.E.Hunt PART II: OTHER RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES Prodigal Nation: September 11 and the American Jeremiad; A.Murphy Geopolitical Theology; J.Milbank September 11 and the Jewish Vocabulary of Tragedy; Rabbi J.Moline Dialogue and Disagreement after 9/11; J.Spiegel & R.Pflum Truth and Falsehood in Religion and Politics; J.B.Cobb, Jr. SECTION III: 9/11 AND PHILOSOPHY AND EFFECTS Reconciliatory Praxis: The Face of Justice after 9/11; A.M.Isasi-Diaz Known Unknowns: How Current Philosophy Addresses Fear of the Post-9/11 World; L.Harte Power, Terror, and the Good for Humans; J.Secada On Moral Alchemy: A Critical Examination of Post-9/11 U.S. Military Policy; T.Brewer The Day the World Changed? Reflections on 9/11 and U.S. National Security Strategy; M.L.Cook SECTION IV: THE JUST WAR THEORY AFTER 9/11 Just War in the Shadow of 9/11; J.B.Elshtain Understanding Terrorism and the Limits of Just War Theory; M.McKenna The Just War Tradition Faces the Remnants of War; M.Douglas Catholic Just War Theory: The Conversation since 9/11; L.Johnston Pacifism and Just War Theory after 9/11; A.Fiala To Debate or Not to Debate: Philosophy and Torture after 9/11; P.Kaurin
About the Author
Matthew J. Morgan is Director of the Business Systems Analyst Group at Starwood Hotels. He has served in a variety of teaching appointments at various institutions, including Assistant Professor of Government at Bentley College, Lecturer of Organizational and Political Communications at Emerson College, and others. Morgan is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has completed graduate work at Harvard Business School and the University of Hawai`i. He served six years in U.S. Army intelligence, including a tour in Afghanistan in which he was awarded the Bronze Star. He is the author of A Democracy Is Born (2007) and The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and Empire (2008).
Table of Contents
Foreword, John L. Esposito * Chapter 1Aftershocks, Philip Yancey * Section I: Islam and 9/11 * Chapter 2 An Altered Terrain: Engaging Islam in the Post-9/11 Public Sphere, Asma Afsaruddin * Chapter 3 A Struggle for the Soul of a Faith: Spiritual Islam versus Political Islam, M. Zuhdi Jasser and Sid Shahid * Chapter 4 How Does the U.S. Government Look at Islam since 9/11? Liora Danan and Alice E. Hunt * Section II: Other Religious Perspectives * Chapter 5 Prodigal Nation: September 11 and the American Jeremiad Andrew Murphy * Chapter 6 Geopolitical Theology, John Milbank * Chapter 7 September 11 and the Jewish Vocabulary of Tragedy, Rabbi Jack Moline * Chapter 8 Dialogue and Disagreement after 9/11, James Spiegel and Ryan Pflum * Chapter 9 Truth and Falsehood in Religion and Politics, John B. Cobb, Jr. * Section III: 9/11 and Philosophy and Ethics * Chapter 10. Reconciliatory Praxis: The Face of Justice after 9/11, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz * Chapter 11 Known Unknowns: How Current Philosophy Addresses Fear of the Post-9/11 World, Liam Harte * Chapter 12 Power, Terror, and the Good for Humans, Jorge Secada * Chapter 13 On Moral Alchemy: A Critical Examination of Post-9/11 U.S. Military Policy, Talbot Brewer * Chapter 14 The Day the World Changed? Reflections on 9/11 and U.S. National Security Strategy, Martin L. Cook * Section IV: The Just War Theory after 9/11 * Chapter 15 Just War in the Shadow of 9/11, Jean Bethke Elshtain * Chapter 16 Understanding Terrorism and the Limits of Just War Theory, Michael McKenna * Chapter 17 The Just War Tradition Faces the Remnants of War, Mark Douglas * Chapter 18 Catholic Just War Theory: The Conversation since 9/11, Laurie Johnston * Chapter 19 Pacifism and Just War Theory after 9/11, Andrew Fiala * Chapter 20 To Debate or Not to Debate: Philosophy and Torture after 9/11, Pauline Kaurin