Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty

by Anthony Santoro

Book Overview

With passion and precision, Exile and Embrace examines the key elements of the religious debates over capital punishment and shows how they reflect the values and self-understandings of contemporary Americans. Santoro demonstrates that capital punishment has relatively little to do with the perpetrators and much more to do with those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he convincingly argues, we should focus our attention not on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555538177
• ISBN13: 9781555538170
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher