TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gallen,James
TI  - Transitional justice and the historical abuses of church and state
SN  - 9781009025973 (ebook)
AV  - K3280 .G35 2023
U1  - 342.08/52 23/eng/20221201
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Church and state
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Reparations for historical injustices
KW  - Transitional justice
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Mar 2023); Introduction -- Otherness and violence in states, Christianity, and institutions -- Historical-structural injustice -- Power -- Emotions and dealing with the past -- Investigating historical-structural injustices -- Litigation and historical-structural injustices -- Reparations -- Apologies -- Reconciliation; Open Access
N2  - In this book, James Gallen provides an in-depth evaluation of the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses from a transitional justice perspective. Using a comparative lens, this book examines the application of transitional justice to address and redress the past in Ireland, Australia, Canada, the United States and United Kingdom. It evaluates the use of public inquiries and truth commissions, litigation, reparations, apologies, and reconciliation in each context to address these abuses. Significantly, this novel analysis considers how power and public emotions influence, and often impede, transitional justice's ability to address historical-structural injustices. In addressing historical abuses, power fails to be redistributed and national and religious myths are not reconsidered, leading Gallen to conclude that the existing transitional justice efforts of states and churches remain an unrepentant form of justice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025973
ER  -