Lloyd Steffen - Selected Publications (2007-08) 

Holy War, Just War:  Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence  (Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)

Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Proceedings from 6th Global Dying and Death Conference,  Dennis Cooley and Lloyd Steffen, eds., Oxford:  Inter-disciplinary Press, 2009.

In Good Conscience:  Guidelines for the Ethical Provision of Health Care in a  Pluralistic Society (a co-author; information and text of document available at www.rcrc.org.)

"Demonic Religion and Violence," in Arvind Sharma, ed., The World's Religions after September 11, Vol. I:  Religion, War and Peace [Four Volumes], New York:  Praeger, 2008:  19-29.

"The Presumption of Peace:  Where Just War and Non-Violent Resistance Meet (and Diverge)," Jason Daverth, ed., Conflict and Conciliation:  Faith and Politics in an Age of Global Dissonance (Dublin, Ireland:  Columba Press, 2007):  20-38.

"What Religion Contributes to an Environmental Ethic,"  Environmental Ethics, Vol. 29 (Summer 2007):  193-208.

"Gandhi's Nonviolent Resistance:  A Justified Use of Force?", Journal of Philosophy and the Contemporary World 15: 1 (June 2008):  68-80.  

"The Death of Innocents:  Noncombatant Immunity v. the Divine Fetus," in Layers of Death and Dying, ed. Kate Woodthorpe (Oxford: The Inter- Disciplinary Press, 2007):  97-106.

"Physician Assisted Suicide:  A New Approach,” in T. Chandler Haliburton and Caroline Edwards, eds., Mortality, Dying and Death (Oxford:  Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008):  183-205.

"The Divine Foetus:  Abortion and Absolute Innocence," forthcoming in edited volume, Rodopi Press (Amsterdam), edited by Asa Kasher, University of Tel-Aviv.

"The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide," forthcoming in edited volume, Rodopi Press (Amsterdam), edited by Asa Kasher, University of Tel-Aviv.

"Environmental  Ethics:  The Distinctively Religious Contribution," forthcoming, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 1-904710-39-5.

Reviews

Review: Roger S. Gottlieb, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Environmental Ethics, Vol 30, No. 4 (Winter 2008):  439-442.

Review: Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman, eds., The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, forthcoming, CHOICE.

Review: Charlene P. E. Burns, More Moral than God: Taking Responsibility for Religious Violence, CHOICE, forthcoming.

Review: Bruce B. Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: A Reader (Durham:  Duke University Press, 2007), CHOICE (Vol. 45, no. 10, June 2008): p. 1781.

Review:  Ronald Cole-Turner, Design and Destiny:  Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification, (Cambridge:  MIT Press, 2008), CHOICE (Vol 45, no. 12, August 2008).

Review:   Judith W. Kay:  Murdering Myths:  The Story Behind the Death Penalty, Religious Studies Review,  Vol. 33, no. 3 (July 2007):  227.

Review:  David L. Clough & Brian Stiltner, Faith and Force:  A Christian Debate About War (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007), CHOICE (Vol. 45, no. 06, February 2008): p. 994.

Public Writings

“Reflecting on Justice and Forgiveness,” The Morning Call, “Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, April 11, 2009: p. D7, D9.
web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-d7_faithsteffen.6846565apr11,0,7967963.story

“Tough Questions at Christmas,” The Morning Call, “Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, December 20, 2008: p. D6, D7.
web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.6709960dec20,0,5349952.story

"Living the Questions,"  The Morning Call, "Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, September 13, 2008:  D 7.

“Dalai Lama tells us to ‘Reprioritize, Revalue," The Morning Call, Wednesday, July 9, 2008: A 13.  (web published several places

         internationally, (e.g. http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/3097, http://temp.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=21906&t=1&c=4.

"The Prophetic Voice and the Problem of Cultural Difference,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 10, 2008: D7, D9.

“The Spiritual Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”, The Morning Call, “Faith and Values Column,” Saturday, January 19, 2008: D7, D9.

        Reprinted various places on web, e.g.,:  http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/?p=459.

 “Time Out to Reexamine Executions,”  Express-Times,  Thursday, October 18, 2007:   A6.

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“Mother Teresa’s Saintly Struggles,” The Morning Call, Saturday, September 15, 2007:  D7, D9.

“Rethinking Suffering,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 19, 2007:  D9, 11.

“What Makes A Prophet?”  Faith and Values Column ( “People with good will. . . .”), The Morning Call, Saturday, February

         17, 2007:  D9, D11.