Forgiveness in perspective / edited by Christopher R. Allers and Marieke Smit.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allers, Christopher R.

Smit, Marieke.

Series:

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 66.

At the interface/Probing in the boundaries ; 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgiveness.

Hostility (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Amidst the cacophony of claims made about forgiveness, this book serves to aid in an effort to put “forgiveness in perspective.” Marieke Smit and Christopher R. Allers have collected here ten essays written by twelve authors from around the world and across the disciplinary spectrum including philosophers, practitioners, psychologists, literary theorists, and prison chaplains. All the essays offer a perspective on forgiveness and put forgiveness in perspective whether by tracing what forgiveness “is,” how this religious inheritance is worked out in our secularizing societies, how forgiveness works in our quotidian experience, or a particular manifestation in a particular context such as marriage, prison, or after an abortion, to name a few. The multi-disciplinary character of this book provides a multi-disciplinary appeal as well as a resource to enlarge one’s own perspective on this perplexing, enigmatic, and wonderfully complex concept of forgiveness.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Forgiveness: A Quiet Assault on the Malicious / Steve Larocco

Undoing What Has Been Done: Arendt and Levinas on Forgiveness / Christopher R. Allers

Forgiving Grave Wrongs / Alisa L. Carse and Lynne Tirrell

Moral Bystanders and the Virtue of Forgiveness / Linda Radzik

If God Cannot Forgive, What Becomes of Harmony? The Strength of a Victim’s Moral Prerogative Not to Forgive / Regan Lance Reitsma

From the Religious to the Political Apology: How the Religious Prehistory of Apology Makes Sense of Collective Responsibility / Danielle Celermajer

In Search of Forgiveness: Men and Abortion in Post-Catholic Ireland / Fergus Hogan

Reconciling Irreconcilable Differences Through Forgiveness / Carla S. Ross

Prisoners and Forgiveness / Marieke Smit

The Community Response To Violence: Do Rituals Of Healing Support Forgiveness? / Barbara Flood and Christina Tomacic-Niaros.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-64303-7

9786612643033

90-420-2996-X

OCLC:

648711442

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042029965 DOI