Title: Spirituality of Restorative Justice
Author: Northey, Wayne
Source: 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice
Date: 06/01/2003
Subject: Spiritual Roots - Western
Call Number: 110.02.04
Type: Paper (5p.)
Abstract: Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice, June 2003:
Restorative Justice in North America, birthplace of its contemporary worldwide expression in criminal justice systems, grew out of a religious community, specifically in the mid-seventies in the Mennonite community of Kitchener, Canada, as an explicit response to a religious problem. No culture exists without religious foundation, claims anthropologist René Girard. If, as Girard continues to explain in an expansive theory of the geneaology of violence, a “scapegoat mechanism” is generated by religion to address the problem of violence, by which sacrificial victims are immolated to restore peace and social cohesion, then religion just may be the source of the corrective to universal scapegoating violence as well.
I thought I’d look at a Spirituality of Restorative Justice through the recent publication, from a Christian perspective, of a book that directly addresses this issue.
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Northey, Wayne.  (2003).  Spirituality of Restorative Justice.  6th International Conference on Restorative Justice.  Retrieved from http://www.sfu.ca/cfrj/fulltext/northey2.pdf

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Northey, Wayne.  "Spirituality of Restorative Justice."  6th International Conference on Restorative Justice 1 June 2003.  ‹http://www.sfu.ca/cfrj/fulltext/northey2.pdf›.

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