Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought

Richard B. Miller

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September, 2010
Cloth, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15098-9
$24.50 / £17.00

"A key addition to any political science collection." — Midwest Book Review

"Miller offers readers a brilliant exercise in liberal social criticism, which stands firmly at the crossroads of moral theory, political philosophy, and pragmatic cultural criticism...it stands heads above many recent works on religion, violence, and terrorism in its thoughtful application of the tools of social criticism." — Choice

"Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought is an outstanding work. Its discussion ranges widely and comfortably in diverse areas of scholarly inquiry—religion, politics, morality, political violence, and social criticism. The book is also courageous, neither apologetic nor ideological." — Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Youngstown State University

"Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought is a judicious application of the main values of the liberal tradition to a moral evaluation of and response to 9/11 and intercultural critique. Both are significantly informed by robust and nuanced understandings of respect for persons, toleration, and equality in a multicultural world, as well as human rights more generally." — Sumner Twiss, Florida State University

Related Subjects

• American Religion
• Ethics
• Political Philosophy

Series

• Columbia Series on Religion and Politics

About the Author

Richard B. Miller is director for the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and professor of religious studies at Indiana University. Focusing on normative issues that cut across religion, politics, and culture, he has written on political and social ethics, religion and public life, theory and method in religious thought and ethics, and biomedical ethics. He is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition, Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning, and Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, along with articles and book chapters on the ethics of killing and war, civic virtue, theological ethics, multiculturalism, and religion and public intellectuals.

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