JTJ - Vita

James Turner Johnson Background

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James Turner Johnson (Ph.D., Princeton, 1968; M.A., Princeton, 1967; B.D., Vanderbilt, 1963; A.B. Brown University, 1960) is a Professor of Religion and Associate Member of the Graduate Department of Political Science at Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. His research and teaching have focused principally on the historical development and application of moral traditions related to war, peace, and the practice of statecraft.
Johnson has received Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and various other research grants and has directed two NEH summer seminars for college teachers. His books include Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War (Princeton, 1975), Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War (Princeton, 1981), Can Modern War Be Just? (Yale, 1984), The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History (Princeton, 1987), The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions (Penn State, 1997), Morality and Contemporary Warfare (Yale, 1999), and (edited with John Kelsay) Cross, Crescent, and Sword: The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition (Greenwood, 1990) and Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions (Greenwood, 1991).
Johnson is a Trustee, Editorial Board member, and former General Editor of The Journal of Religious Ethics and a member of professional societies in the fields of religion and political science. He has lectured to academic, military, and general audiences in United States and abroad. He is married (since 1969) to Pamela B. Johnson; they have two grown children.

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