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  • Just War

    Authority, Tradition, and Practice

    by Anthony F. Lang Jr., Cian O'Driscoll, John Williams, James Turner Johnson, Chris Brown, Nigel Biggar, Laura Sjoberg, Nahed Artoul Zehr0, Tarik Kochi1, Gregory M. Reichberg2, Joseph Boyle3, Brent J. Steele4, Michael Gross5, Neta C. Crawford6, Martin L. Cook7, John Kelsay8, Nicholas Rengger9 ...
    The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice brings together many of the most important contemporary writers on ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited

    Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty

    by Daniel R. Brunstetter, Jean-Vincent Holeindre, Aidan Hehir, Thomas Lindemann, Alex Giacomelli, Nigel Biggar, Kerstin Fisk, Jennifer M. Ramos, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer0, Deborah Avant1, John Kelsay2, John R. Emery3, Shannon E. French4, Victoria Sisk5, Caroline Bass6, Frédéric Ramel7, Brian Orend8, Cian O'Driscoll9 ...
    How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does “victory” mean in contemporary conflict?In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post–Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of contested and ... Read more

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  • Love and Christian Ethics

    Tradition, Theory, and Society

    by Frederick V. Simmons, Thomas W. Ogletree, Terence Irwin, Oliver O'Donovan, Jean Porter, John Hare, Michael J. Ferreira, Edward Collins Vacek, John P. Reeder Jr.0, Margaret A. Farley1, Edmund N. Santurri2, Stephen J. Pope3, Timothy P. Jackson4, Lisa Sowle Cahill5, Cathleen Kaveny6, Mark D. Jordan7, Emilie M. Townes8, Holmes Rolston III9, Eric Gregory0, Ronald M. Green1, John Kelsay2, William Werpehowski3 ...
    Series series Moral Traditions series
    At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in vigorous debates about appropriate interpretations and implications of this critical ... Read more

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  • Arguing the Just War in Islam

    by John Kelsay ...
    Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly grasped. Few people understand the circumstances requiring a jihad, or "holy" war, or how Islamic militants justify their violent actions within the framework of the religious tradition of Islam. How Islam, with more than one billion followers, interprets jihad and establishes its precepts has ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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    The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

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    A twentieth-anniversary edition of the fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam with a new preface and study guide, from the #1 bestselling author of ZealotFINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD“Wise and passionate . . . an incisive, scholarly primer in Muslim history and an engaging personal exploration.” —The New York Times Book ReviewTwo decades after its original publication, ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

    by John S Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist ... Read more

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  • Heretic

    Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

    by Ayaan Hirsi Ali ...
    Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.Today, she argues, the world's 1 ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Impossible State

    Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

    by Wael Hallaq ...
    Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • No god but God: The Origins and Evolution of Islam

    by Reza Aslan ...
    Engaging, accessible, and thought-provoking, No god but God is a persuasive, elegantly written, and accessible introduction for young readers to a faith that for much of the West remains shrouded in ignorance and fear.Adapted for young readers from No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, this exploration of Islam by Reza Aslan, internationally acclaimed scholar of comparative ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance ... Read more

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  • Islam

    Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics and Power

    by George Braswell ...
    This book is essential reading for anyone who desires a complete, balanced view of Islam beyond what appears on the nightly news, Written from a western Christian viewpoint, but with a detailed first-hand knowledge of Muslim life, Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics, and Power digs deep beneath the surface to reveal Islam as a rich, proud and powerful force in world affairs. Though Dr. Braswell ... Read more

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  • On Toleration

    by Michael Walzer ...
    Series series Castle Lectures Series
    What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"-from multinational empires to immigrant societies-and describes the strengths and weaknesses of ... Read more

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