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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsIntroduction, 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;
