Civil liberties, national security and prospects for consensus : legal, philosophical, and religious perspectives / edited by Esther D. Reed and Michael Dumper.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

1st edition

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National security -- Law and legislation.

Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation.

Terrorism (International law)

Civil rights.

Part I. The security-liberty debate

1. Safety and security

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

4. From cartoons to crucifixes : current controversies concerning the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression before the European Court of Human Rights

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

7. Religiously rooted engagement in the relationship between human rights and security : a socio-anthropological approach

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107008984

ix, 270 p. ; 24 cm