Tor­ture Is a Moral Issue is a col­lec­tion of essays that explore essen­tial ques­tions relat­ed to tor­ture. The pur­pose of the book is to view tor­ture exclu­sive­ly through the prism of morality. 

There is so much mate­r­i­al to cov­er and so lit­tle lit­er­a­ture writ­ten thus far on the sub­ject, that this book does dou­ble duty — as an intro­duc­tion to the study of these issues and as a defin­i­tive source about them. 

The book is divid­ed into five sec­tions, each capa­ble of stand­ing on its own. The sec­tions con­cern­ing the back­ground and the fun­da­men­tals of tor­ture help frame the broad­er ques­tion. It is here that the edi­tors pro­vide valu­able his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive. Oth­er sec­tions dis­cuss var­i­ous reli­gions’ approach­es to tor­ture. These sec­tions will be enor­mous­ly help­ful to any read­er look­ing for a sin­gle-vol­ume approach to Chris­t­ian, Jew­ish, and/​or Mus­lim atti­tudes toward torture. 

Hun­singer aimed high in Tor­ture Is a Moral Issue.He secured essays by seri­ous thinkers from a vari­ety of aca­d­e­m­ic fields and brought them togeth­er. This book is a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to sev­er­al dis­ci­plines, most espe­cial­ly reli­gious stud­ies and the study of ethics and morality.