An assessment of the attempts to bring religious allegiances and perspectives to bear in responses to the mass atrocities of our time.

Part I. Between Necessity and Impossibility: The Role of Religion in the Face of Atrocity: 1. Religious rhetoric in responses to atrocity Jennifer L. Geddes; 2. The limit of ethics - the ethics of the limit Arne Grøn; 3. The intolerability of meaning: myth, faith and reason in philosophical responses to moral atrocity Peter Dews; Part II. Does it Help to Import Religious Ideas? Reflections on Punishment, War and Forgiveness: 4. Can we punish the perpetrators of atrocities? Antony Duff; 5. On the advocacy of forgiveness after mass atrocities Thomas Brudholm; 6. The ethics of forgiveness and the doctrine of just war: a religious view of righting atrocious wrongs Nigel Biggar; Part III. Sociologies of the Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocities: 7. Making whole: the ethics and politics of 'coming to terms with the past' John Torpey; 8. When faith meets history: the influence of religion on transitional justice Daniel Philpot; 9. Genocidal rupture and performative repair in global civil society: reconsidering the discourse of apology in the face of mass atrocity Thomas Cushman; 10. Violence, human rights and piety: cosmopolitanism versus virtuous exclusion Bryan Turner.