Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: injustice, memory and faith in human rights -- PART I Moments of memory and injustice -- 1. Ghosts of war crimes past: an account from the frontline in Bangladesh -- 2. Modern Islamic memory and the ISIS 'caliphate' -- 3. Peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland: the case of Irish nationalism -- 4. Selecting the memory, controlling the myth: the propaganda of legal foundations in early modern drama -- 5. Sin carries the penance: the Spanish Civil War's conflicts of guilt and justice -- PART II Addressing injustice -- 6. Beginning anew: exceptional institutions and the politics of ritual -- 7. Promoting reconciliation and protecting human rights: an underexplored relationship -- 8. Human rights as acts of faith: universal jurisdiction and the Law of Historical Memory in Spain -- 9. The right to historical truth and historical memory versus historical revisionism and denialism: a human rights analysis -- PART III Questions of faith -- 10. Misplaced faith? Implementing Spain's 2007 Reparation Law -- 11. Faith, justice and Catholic public memory: the politics of reconciliation in Australia and New Zealand -- 12. A pastoral care for reconciliation? Spanish Catholic bishops and historical memory during the Zapatero era (2004-2011) -- 13. The Australian Christian churches and the Aboriginal reconciliation process: public religion and its limitations -- Conclusion: Varosha, a memorial to conflict -- Index