Shannon Dunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Dunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunn |
| SIGNATURE | DUNN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gonzaga University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ethics of Tainted Legacies
Appropriation, Opting Out, and the Common Good in Public Debates
This article examines anti-mask protests in the United States in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, I look at the cultural (mis)appropriation of slogans by anti-mask protestors, such as “I can’t breathe” and “My body, my choice.” Noting that this is at first glance a bit of a puzzling phenomenon, I show that there is a relationship between the anti-mask protest, white Christian grievance politics, and the disintegration of the pu…
New Directions in Theorizing Moral Injury and Just War
This collection of essays examines the relationship between moral injury and just war theory. The included essays attempt to broaden the ethical subject of moral injury, while also seeking greater conceptual clarity about the nature of moral harm that occurs in the contexts of both warfare and the afterwar
Moral Injury and Tragic Sensibility
Since Jonathan Shay's work with Vietnam veterans, moral injury has largely focused on the harm done to soldiers' moral character through their participation in warfare. This essay argues for the inclusion of noncombatants in the scope of inquiry involving moral injury. Specifically, it argues for the necessity of ordinary citizens assuming responsibility for the moral injury done to soldiers and civilians alike in the post‐9/11 wars
Identity Politics, Justice, and the Quest for Solidarity
This article situates arguments against identity politics within a broader context of philosophical and political arguments about identity and the subject. One pervasive argument is that identity politics is a key factor working against social solidarity in a pluralistic democracy. In order to contest this claim, I use the work of feminist theorists who address a persistent bias against collective identity in Western philosophical thought. Finall…
Covid‐19 and Religious Ethics
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics
Ethnography and Subjectivity in Comparative Religious Ethics
The ethnographic turn in religious studies has responded to important developments, such as the rejection of value neutrality and the need to better address the lived experience of individuals and communities. In this essay, I affirm the value of ethnography as a method in comparative religious ethics, but distinguish between two ways of framing ethnography in relation to ethics. The first way insists on the hard limits of translating values acro…
Gender, Violence, and Social Justice in Islam
Three recent books focused on law, gender, and Islam not only make important individual contributions to the field of law and religion, but together, in their attention to issues of gender, sex, violence, and law, signal an important development in both this field and the field of Islamic studies. This state of the field essay examines Kecia Ali's revised and expanded edition of Sexual Ethics and Islam , Ayesha Chaudhry's Domestic Violence and th…
Experience, Authority, and Social Critique
The category of experience has constituted an important point for reflection in moral philosophy and theology, particularly among feminist and liberationist circles. The appeal to experience as an authoritative source has been met with criticism by those who understand the term to connote either radical interiority, on the one hand, or an uncritical foundation for truth claims, on the other. This essay argues that the respective works of classica…
The End of Religious Liberty? Institutional Sovereignty and the Question of Social Justice
Myth or Method Religious Ethics, MacIntyre's Modernity, and the Question of Power
This essay identifies two different components in Alasdair MacIntyre's work: his argument that communities engage in social change through practices of justification and his argument that modern moral reason is doomed to fail. Some scholars, such as Talal Asad, collapse these two distinct arguments into a single argument about the impossibility of rational justification in the modern world, thereby reducing ethical discourse to a contest of power…
Striving in the Path of God
Asma Afsaruddin presents a comprehensive selection of early and medieval Islamic exegetical writings on the topic of jihad and martyrdom and compares them with contemporary treatments of these terms. In doing so, she makes a set of interrelated points: (i) the classical tradition of Qur'anic tafsir (exegesis) shows disagreement on the meaning of al jihad fi-sabil allah (striving in the path of God) as primarily combative, (ii) in addition to pro-…
The 'Wretched Poor' and the Sea
The daily lives of Achill Island's inhabitants were heavily influenced by their relationships with the ocean, its resources and the seasons. Ireland's largest island, situated along its predominantly rural western coast, Achill remains in many ways idyllic and pastoral, descriptors used in the modern and recent historic era to draw tourists but also used in previous centuries to denigrate the culture and lifeways of the islands' inhabitants. Achi…
Virtue Ethics, Social Difference, and the Challenge of an Embodied Politics
Following the revival of virtue theory, some moral theorists have argued that virtue ethics can provide the basis for a radical politics. Such a politics essentially departs from the liberal model of the moral agent as an autonomous reason‐giver. It instead privileges an understanding of the agent as conditioned by her community, and in the case of social oppression and marginalization, communal virtues may become a vehicle for social change. Thi…
Wellness in Tillery
Occupational therapy faculty and students from East Carolina University, in collaboration with the residents of Tillery, North Carolina, participated in a community-built wellness program. Outcomes of the program indicated that a program with participant input results in enhanced perceived wellness, maintenance of meaningful activities, and improved self-reported quality of life. Program elements necessary for duplication of the program are discu…
Wellness in Tillery
Occupational therapy faculty and students from East Carolina University, in collaboration with the residents of Tillery, North Carolina, participated in a community-built wellness program. Outcomes of the program indicated that a program with participant input results in enhanced perceived wellness, maintenance of meaningful activities, and improved self-reported quality of life. Program elements necessary for duplication of the program are discu…
Virtue Ethics, Social Difference, and the Challenge of an Embodied Politics
Following the revival of virtue theory, some moral theorists have argued that virtue ethics can provide the basis for a radical politics. Such a politics essentially departs from the liberal model of the moral agent as an autonomous reason‐giver. It instead privileges an understanding of the agent as conditioned by her community, and in the case of social oppression and marginalization, communal virtues may become a vehicle for social change. Thi…
The 'Wretched Poor' and the Sea
The daily lives of Achill Island's inhabitants were heavily influenced by their relationships with the ocean, its resources and the seasons. Ireland's largest island, situated along its predominantly rural western coast, Achill remains in many ways idyllic and pastoral, descriptors used in the modern and recent historic era to draw tourists but also used in previous centuries to denigrate the culture and lifeways of the islands' inhabitants. Achi…
Myth or Method Religious Ethics, MacIntyre's Modernity, and the Question of Power
This essay identifies two different components in Alasdair MacIntyre's work: his argument that communities engage in social change through practices of justification and his argument that modern moral reason is doomed to fail. Some scholars, such as Talal Asad, collapse these two distinct arguments into a single argument about the impossibility of rational justification in the modern world, thereby reducing ethical discourse to a contest of power…
Striving in the Path of God
Asma Afsaruddin presents a comprehensive selection of early and medieval Islamic exegetical writings on the topic of jihad and martyrdom and compares them with contemporary treatments of these terms. In doing so, she makes a set of interrelated points: (i) the classical tradition of Qur'anic tafsir (exegesis) shows disagreement on the meaning of al jihad fi-sabil allah (striving in the path of God) as primarily combative, (ii) in addition to pro-…
Gender, Violence, and Social Justice in Islam
Three recent books focused on law, gender, and Islam not only make important individual contributions to the field of law and religion, but together, in their attention to issues of gender, sex, violence, and law, signal an important development in both this field and the field of Islamic studies. This state of the field essay examines Kecia Ali's revised and expanded edition of Sexual Ethics and Islam , Ayesha Chaudhry's Domestic Violence and th…
Experience, Authority, and Social Critique
The category of experience has constituted an important point for reflection in moral philosophy and theology, particularly among feminist and liberationist circles. The appeal to experience as an authoritative source has been met with criticism by those who understand the term to connote either radical interiority, on the one hand, or an uncritical foundation for truth claims, on the other. This essay argues that the respective works of classica…
The End of Religious Liberty? Institutional Sovereignty and the Question of Social Justice
Ethnography and Subjectivity in Comparative Religious Ethics
The ethnographic turn in religious studies has responded to important developments, such as the rejection of value neutrality and the need to better address the lived experience of individuals and communities. In this essay, I affirm the value of ethnography as a method in comparative religious ethics, but distinguish between two ways of framing ethnography in relation to ethics. The first way insists on the hard limits of translating values acro…
Covid‐19 and Religious Ethics
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics
New Directions in Theorizing Moral Injury and Just War
This collection of essays examines the relationship between moral injury and just war theory. The included essays attempt to broaden the ethical subject of moral injury, while also seeking greater conceptual clarity about the nature of moral harm that occurs in the contexts of both warfare and the afterwar
Moral Injury and Tragic Sensibility
Since Jonathan Shay's work with Vietnam veterans, moral injury has largely focused on the harm done to soldiers' moral character through their participation in warfare. This essay argues for the inclusion of noncombatants in the scope of inquiry involving moral injury. Specifically, it argues for the necessity of ordinary citizens assuming responsibility for the moral injury done to soldiers and civilians alike in the post‐9/11 wars
Identity Politics, Justice, and the Quest for Solidarity
This article situates arguments against identity politics within a broader context of philosophical and political arguments about identity and the subject. One pervasive argument is that identity politics is a key factor working against social solidarity in a pluralistic democracy. In order to contest this claim, I use the work of feminist theorists who address a persistent bias against collective identity in Western philosophical thought. Finall…
Appropriation, Opting Out, and the Common Good in Public Debates
This article examines anti-mask protests in the United States in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, I look at the cultural (mis)appropriation of slogans by anti-mask protestors, such as “I can’t breathe” and “My body, my choice.” Noting that this is at first glance a bit of a puzzling phenomenon, I show that there is a relationship between the anti-mask protest, white Christian grievance politics, and the disintegration of the pu…
The Ethics of Tainted Legacies
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