Rosemary Kellison
Biographic Data
| ID | 4503325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Kellison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Kellison |
| SIGNATURE | KELLISON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2085-7645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition , By Mark Douglas
Journal Article Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition. By Mark Douglas Get access Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition By Mark Douglas Cambridge University Press, 2022. 350 pages. $120.00 (hardcover). Rosemary Kellison Rosemary Kellison Florida State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Relig…
Spiritual Fitness and Moral Responsibility in the Contemporary United States Military
In an effort to increase resilience and decrease moral injury among servicemembers and veterans, the US military has in recent years invested in the promotion of “spiritual fitness” among its members. The military’s definition of spiritual fitness relies heavily on a popular contemporary American conceptualization of spirituality as essentially individual. Military materials strongly imply that spiritually fit servicemembers adopt military values…
The Critical Power of an Expanded Concept of Moral Injury
Contemporary analyses of moral injury in war focus on its occurrence in American veterans who commit or witness acts contrary to their deeply held moral beliefs. Moral injuries suffered by noncombatants are largely absent from this discourse. I advocate for greater inclusion of the victim‐centered perspective in studies of moral injury in war. This perspective conceptualizes moral injury as the specific harm suffered when one's moral humanity is …
Justice, Virtue, and Power in Democratic Conflict
The question of how to respond to the deep political divides in the United States today has resulted in the emergence of two camps. On one side are those who argue that the cultivation of civic virtues like civility will lead to more respectful interpersonal relationships through which consensus and mutual understanding can be built. On the other are those who argue that our commitment to justice is primary and may require uncivil behavior to dis…
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms to innocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. In this book, Rosemary Kellison presents a feminist critique of just war reasoning, with particular focus on the issue of responsibility for harm to noncombatants. Contemporary just war reasoning denies the violence of war by suggesting that many of the harms caused by war are necessary, though regrett…
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms to innocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. In this book, Rosemary Kellison presents a feminist critique of just war reasoning, with particular focus on the issue of responsibility for harm to noncombatants. Contemporary just war reasoning denies the violence of war by suggesting that many of the harms caused by war are necessary, though regrett…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
Texts and Traditions in the Comparative Study of Religion, Morality, and Violence
Impure Agency and the Just War
Feminist critiques of intention challenge some aspects of traditional just war reasoning, including the criteria of right intention and discrimination (particularly as interpreted using the doctrine of double effect). I take note of these challenges and propose some directions just war reasoners might take in response. First, right intention can be evaluated more accurately by judging what actors in war actually do than by attempting to uncover i…
Seeing Power in Just War Reasoning
Feminist philosophers Judith Butler and Margaret Urban Walker suggest an approach to the study of ethics that allows for critical attention to the role of power—something critics like Talal Asad argue has been missing from modern ethics—while preserving the possibility of normative argument. In this paper, I consider how this approach might be employed in relation to the tradition of just war reasoning. In particular, I focus on the just war crit…
Tradition, Authority, and Immanent Critique in Comparative Ethics
Drawing on resources from pragmatist thought allows religious ethicists to take account of the central role traditions play in the formation and development of moral concepts without thereby espousing moral relativism or becoming traditionalists. After giving an account of this understanding of the concept of tradition, I examine the ways in which understandings of tradition play out in two contemporary examples of tradition‐based ethics: works i…
Character and Critique in the Ethics of War
As its title suggests, Nigel Biggar's In Defence of War offers a strong response to pacifists who argue that the use of armed force can never be morally justified. However, though it is cogently and convincingly made, this argument is not really the heart of In Defence of War. Indeed, it constitutes only one chapter of the book, which is primarily dedicated to the defense of a particular kind of war—the justified war, whose characteristic feature…
Studying and Advocating
Upon reading Scott Davis's compelling work Believing and Acting, I am struck that the pragmatic turn in religion and ethics has taken three primary forms. That is, pragmatism has been understood as (1) a scholarly approach to the study of religious ethics; (2) a description of the social practices of reasoning by which communities work through disagreements and come to shared norms; and (3) an ethical program suggesting a way that human communiti…
Connections, Confusions, Colonialism and the Construction of Religion
Timothy Fitzgerald's recent Discourse on Civility and Barbarity, represents an important development in his work. In this book he attempts to introduce a new argument into his overall project, illustrating a connection between the invention of “religion” that he has described elsewhere and a particular (English) colonial discourse. This essay argues that while Fitzgerald's argument shows promise, he has not yet fully succeeded in making this conn…
Connections, Confusions, Colonialism and the Construction of Religion
Timothy Fitzgerald's recent Discourse on Civility and Barbarity, represents an important development in his work. In this book he attempts to introduce a new argument into his overall project, illustrating a connection between the invention of “religion” that he has described elsewhere and a particular (English) colonial discourse. This essay argues that while Fitzgerald's argument shows promise, he has not yet fully succeeded in making this conn…
Connections, Confusions, Colonialism and the Construction of Religion
Timothy Fitzgerald's recent Discourse on Civility and Barbarity, represents an important development in his work. In this book he attempts to introduce a new argument into his overall project, illustrating a connection between the invention of “religion” that he has described elsewhere and a particular (English) colonial discourse. This essay argues that while Fitzgerald's argument shows promise, he has not yet fully succeeded in making this conn…
Studying and Advocating
Upon reading Scott Davis's compelling work Believing and Acting, I am struck that the pragmatic turn in religion and ethics has taken three primary forms. That is, pragmatism has been understood as (1) a scholarly approach to the study of religious ethics; (2) a description of the social practices of reasoning by which communities work through disagreements and come to shared norms; and (3) an ethical program suggesting a way that human communiti…
Tradition, Authority, and Immanent Critique in Comparative Ethics
Drawing on resources from pragmatist thought allows religious ethicists to take account of the central role traditions play in the formation and development of moral concepts without thereby espousing moral relativism or becoming traditionalists. After giving an account of this understanding of the concept of tradition, I examine the ways in which understandings of tradition play out in two contemporary examples of tradition‐based ethics: works i…
Character and Critique in the Ethics of War
As its title suggests, Nigel Biggar's In Defence of War offers a strong response to pacifists who argue that the use of armed force can never be morally justified. However, though it is cogently and convincingly made, this argument is not really the heart of In Defence of War. Indeed, it constitutes only one chapter of the book, which is primarily dedicated to the defense of a particular kind of war—the justified war, whose characteristic feature…
Texts and Traditions in the Comparative Study of Religion, Morality, and Violence
Impure Agency and the Just War
Feminist critiques of intention challenge some aspects of traditional just war reasoning, including the criteria of right intention and discrimination (particularly as interpreted using the doctrine of double effect). I take note of these challenges and propose some directions just war reasoners might take in response. First, right intention can be evaluated more accurately by judging what actors in war actually do than by attempting to uncover i…
Seeing Power in Just War Reasoning
Feminist philosophers Judith Butler and Margaret Urban Walker suggest an approach to the study of ethics that allows for critical attention to the role of power—something critics like Talal Asad argue has been missing from modern ethics—while preserving the possibility of normative argument. In this paper, I consider how this approach might be employed in relation to the tradition of just war reasoning. In particular, I focus on the just war crit…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms to innocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. In this book, Rosemary Kellison presents a feminist critique of just war reasoning, with particular focus on the issue of responsibility for harm to noncombatants. Contemporary just war reasoning denies the violence of war by suggesting that many of the harms caused by war are necessary, though regrett…
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms to innocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. In this book, Rosemary Kellison presents a feminist critique of just war reasoning, with particular focus on the issue of responsibility for harm to noncombatants. Contemporary just war reasoning denies the violence of war by suggesting that many of the harms caused by war are necessary, though regrett…
Justice, Virtue, and Power in Democratic Conflict
The question of how to respond to the deep political divides in the United States today has resulted in the emergence of two camps. On one side are those who argue that the cultivation of civic virtues like civility will lead to more respectful interpersonal relationships through which consensus and mutual understanding can be built. On the other are those who argue that our commitment to justice is primary and may require uncivil behavior to dis…
The Critical Power of an Expanded Concept of Moral Injury
Contemporary analyses of moral injury in war focus on its occurrence in American veterans who commit or witness acts contrary to their deeply held moral beliefs. Moral injuries suffered by noncombatants are largely absent from this discourse. I advocate for greater inclusion of the victim‐centered perspective in studies of moral injury in war. This perspective conceptualizes moral injury as the specific harm suffered when one's moral humanity is …
Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition , By Mark Douglas
Journal Article Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition. By Mark Douglas Get access Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition By Mark Douglas Cambridge University Press, 2022. 350 pages. $120.00 (hardcover). Rosemary Kellison Rosemary Kellison Florida State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Relig…
Spiritual Fitness and Moral Responsibility in the Contemporary United States Military
In an effort to increase resilience and decrease moral injury among servicemembers and veterans, the US military has in recent years invested in the promotion of “spiritual fitness” among its members. The military’s definition of spiritual fitness relies heavily on a popular contemporary American conceptualization of spirituality as essentially individual. Military materials strongly imply that spiritually fit servicemembers adopt military values…
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