Deliver Us From Evil

M. David Eckel is an Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University and Director of the Institute for Philosophy of Religion. His publications include Jnanagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction between the Two Truths (1987), To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness (1994), and Understanding Buddhism (2003). Bradley L. Herling is Professor of Religious Studies, Marymount Manhattan College. He received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University and is the author of The German Gita: Hermeneutics and Discipline in the German Reception of Indian Thought, 1778-1831.

"Deliver Us From Evil is a first-rate, multi-disciplined collection of papers exploring the nature and cause of evil and the possibility of repair and redemption. This accessible work should engage scholars and general readers committed to thinking about our different concepts of good and evil in both religious and secular contexts." - Professor Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, USA

• Introduction, M. David Eckel (Boston University, USA) and Bradley L. Herling (Marymount Manhattan College, USA); Part I: Imagining Evil Religiously: East and West; 1. Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil, Peter Hawkins (Boston University, USA); 2. The Three Faces of Satan in Islam, Eric Ormsby (McGill University, Canada); 3. Evil, Motherhood, and the Hindu Goddess Kali, Rachel Fell McDermott (Barnard College, USA); 4. The Predicament of Evil: The Case of Dorje Shukden, Georges Dreyfus (Williams College, USA); 5. Awakening to Satanic Conspiracy: Rosemary's Baby and the Cult Next Door, David Frankfurter (University of New Hampshire, USA); Part II: Contemporary Philosophical Responses to Evil; 6. Paul Ricoeur on Evil and Fault, Alan Olson (Boston University, USA); 7. The Abuse of Evil, Richard Bernstein (New School University, USA); 8. Evil, Reciprocity, and Rights, Edwin Delattre (Boston University, USA); 9. How Banal Is Evil? Manfred Kuehn (Boston University, USA); 10. Seeing Darkness, Hearing Silence, Mark Larrimore (New School University); Part III: Deliver Us From Evil?; 11. For Your Own Good: Suffering and Evil in God's Plan According to One Hindu Theologian, Francis X. Clooney (Harvard University, USA); 12. Can Evil Be Redeemed? Unorthodox Tensions in Eastern Orthodox Theology, Kimberley Patton (Harvard University, USA); 13. Desire: Between Good and Evil, Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA); 14. Evil: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Ana-Maria Rizzuto (Psychoanalyst).