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Additional Physical Format: | (OCoLC)949911718 |
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Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Churchill. |
ISBN: | 9780190468590 0190468599 |
OCLC Number: | 951754393 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
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Disturbing as the subject is, Paul Churchill has given us a fascinating, trenchant, and ultimately hopeful analysis of a seemingly intractable problem. Deploying tools from several disciplines, he unpacks the causes and consequences of these crimes for their victims and their communities. As he explains, so-called honor killings are symptomatic of greater challenges that this book will help us face. * Jonathan D. Moreno, David And Lyn Silfen University Professor Of Ethics, University of Pennsylvania * Faced with the appalling reality of 'honor killings,' the temptation is morally and legally to condemn the fathers, the brothers who murder their daughter, their sister. Paul Churchill, a moral philosopher of the first order (by which I mean, in and for the world as it is), understands that the murdering must be stopped now, but also that social orders demanding the killings must change if females are no longer to be at mortal risk. Drawing on exhaustive socialscience research, he tries to comprehend the cultural, historical formations that make 'honor killing' so hard to stop in order to figure out how it might come to be rejected in the only finally effective way - by those who perpetrate and perpetuate it. * Elizabeth Minnich, Senior Scholar, Association of American Colleges & Universities, and author of 'The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) * This is an important book at a time when honor killings are on the rise both in the East and West. It is unique in addressing the definition of honor killing which is crucial to ending this scourge against humanity and a must-read for law enforcement and the legal system that deals with this issue. * Raheel Raza, President Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow * Churchill's book is substantive, thoroughly researched, timely, and relevant. The author has provided a careful and caring analysis and evaluation of honor killing. He engages in serious scholarship and does it with a clear and focused mission of identifying a serious problem and offering thoughtful approaches to addressing it. This work is philosophy at its best! * David B. Boersema, Retired Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Pacific University * Read more...

