Exploring moral injury in sacred texts
By: edited by Joseph McDonald ; foreword by Rita Nakashima Brock
Series: Studies in religion and theology; Studies in religion and theology
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781785927560; 9781784505912
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Psychic trauma; Psychology; Miscellanea; Religion and Psychology; Religious aspects; Theology; Suffering; Psychological Stress; Violence; Exposure to Violence; Psychological Trauma; Ethics; Wounds and injuries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Jonathan Shay; Introduction; title: Joseph McDonald, PhD, Visiting Instructor at Texas Christian University and Brite Divinity School; 1. Soul Repair: A Jewish View; title: David R. Blumenthal, PhD, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University; 2. Sodom and Lot's Family: Moral Injury in Genesis 19; title: Nancy Bowen, PhD, Professor of Old Testament, Earlham School of Religion; 3. "The Most Beautiful of Stories": A Muslim Reflection on the Qur'an and Moral Injury; title: Amir Hussain, PhD, Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University; 4. Moral Injury and the Division of Spoils after Battle in the Hebrew Bible; title: Brad Kelle, PhD, Professor of Old Testament, Point Loma Nazarene University; 5. Civil Religion and the Moral Wounds of War; title: Daniel C. Maguire, STD, Professor of Theological Ethics, Marquette University; 6. Like acid seeping into your soul: Religio-cultural Violence in Moral Injury; title: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, PhD, Associate Professor of Religion and Co-director of Peace and Justice Studies, Moravian College; 7. Do Not Torment Me: The Morally-Injured Gersaene Demoniac; title: Michael Yandell, Theological Studies PhD student, Emory University; 8. Peter and Judas: Moral Injury and Repair; title: Warren Carter, PhD, Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School; 9. Buddhist Scripture and Moral Injury: Reflections on the Story of A?gulimala; title: John Thompson, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Christopher Newport University; Conclusion; Afterword; title: Rita Brock PhD, Research Professor of Theology and Culture, Brite Divinity School, and Founding Co-Director, The Soul Repair Center; References;