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James Turner Johnson

James Turner Johnson is professor of religion at Rutgers University.
 
 

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Selected Publications:
Morality and Contemporary Warfare (1999)
The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Tradition (1997)
Beyond Confrontation: Learning Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era (Editor, with John Vasquez, Sanford Jaffe, and Linda Stamato, 1995)
The Just War Idea and the Ethics of Intervention (1993)
Just War and the Gulf War (with George Weigel, 1991)
Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions (Editor, with John Kelsay, 1991)
Cross, Crescent, and Sword: The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition (Editor, with John Kelsay, 1990)
The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History (1987)
The Bible in American Law, Politics, and Political Rhetoric (Editor and author of Introduction, 1985)
. . . Can Modern War Be Just? (1984)
Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry (1981)
Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War (1975)
Love and Society: Essays in the Ethics of Paul Ramsey (Editor, with David H. Smith, 1974)
A Society Ordained by God: English Puritan Marriage Doctrine in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century (1970)
 
Specialization:
Religious ethics, religion and society; Just War theory
 
Last Updated: Mar 14, 2011

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