TASSC.org / Books and Films / Suggested Books / Torture and Religion /

 

In this analysis, the author contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline. He develops a theology of the political which presents torture as one instance of a larger confrontation of powers over bodies, both individual and social.

Buy "Torture and Eucharist" by William T. Cavanaugh

---

Reviewing the history and practice of torture, and the arguments used to justify it, Perry takes us into minds of both the torturers and their victims. Ultimately, showing why torture is different from other acts of war, and why it is fundamentally immoral: not only because it violates the dignity we owe to the human person but also because it directly or indirectly degrades any society that would tolerate it.