Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus Legal, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives
Book contents
- Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus
- Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Civil liberties, national security and prospects for consensus: legal, philosophical and religious perspectives
- Part I The security–liberty debate
- 2 Escaping Hobbes: liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age
- 3 Moderate secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion
- Part II Impact on society: the management of unease
- 5 Building a consensus on ‘national security’ in Britain: terrorism, human rights and ‘core values’ – the Labour government (a retrospective examination)
- 6 Terror, reason and rights
- Part III Religious dimensions
- 8 The elimination of mutilation and torture in rabbinic thought and practice: a Jewish comment amidst the civil liberties/national security debate
- 9 Narrating religious insecurity: Islamic–Western conceptions of mutual threat
- 10 Security and the state: a Christian realist perspective on the world since 9/11
- Index
Part I - The security–liberty debate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Book contents
- Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus
- Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Civil liberties, national security and prospects for consensus: legal, philosophical and religious perspectives
- Part I The security–liberty debate
- 2 Escaping Hobbes: liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age
- 3 Moderate secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion
- Part II Impact on society: the management of unease
- 5 Building a consensus on ‘national security’ in Britain: terrorism, human rights and ‘core values’ – the Labour government (a retrospective examination)
- 6 Terror, reason and rights
- Part III Religious dimensions
- 8 The elimination of mutilation and torture in rabbinic thought and practice: a Jewish comment amidst the civil liberties/national security debate
- 9 Narrating religious insecurity: Islamic–Western conceptions of mutual threat
- 10 Security and the state: a Christian realist perspective on the world since 9/11
- Index
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- Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for ConsensusLegal, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives, pp. 11 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012