Narrative of suffering : meaning and experience in a transcultural approach / edited by Lolita Guimaraes Guerra, Jose A. Nicdao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guimaraes Guerra, Lolita, editor.

A. Nicdao, Jose, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2014]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. This volume explores how people come to terms with suffering, how they experience the mystery of this human condition, and how future studies can shed some further light on the topic. Various perspectives are represented here, such as the use of narratives to delve into the reality of suffering, the emotional trauma that suffering brings, the narrative process, which manifests phenomenology and intersubjectivity and the emergence of gendered models of suffering. These approaches derive from multiple fields of research, creating a multi-perspectival view of suffering that transcend long-held disciplinary boundaries and stimulate a broader dialogue within contemporary scholarship on suffering-related themes. Such plurality points out that, in the end, despite its negative connotations, suffering positively affects individuals and society as it enables recognition of common bonds that link all people from all nations and all races. Compassion and sympathy leads to a transcendence that this book seeks to highlight.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Lolita Guimarães Guerra and Jose A. Nicdao

Can a Charismatic Theology of Healing Neglect a Theology of Suffering? / Reginald Alva

Suffering and Autonomy of Nature from a Theological Perspective / Andrzej Dańczak

Suffering as Capability Deprivation: A Capabilities-Based Sociological Perspective / Spiros Gangas

Between Lovemaking and an Autopsy, Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father / Luísa Maria Flora

The Voices of Storytellers / B. Sultan Yetgin and Hasan Şen

Suffering and Loneliness: Experiential Isolation in Post-Traumatic Narrated Lives / Jacob Y. Stein and Rivka Tuval-Mashiach

Language, Suffering and Meaning Making in the Context of Trauma / Sreevidya Surendran

The Colour of the Halo of Death: Suffering and Divinity in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroì Lógoi / Lolita Guimarães Guerra

Gender, Melancholia and the ‘Fallen Woman’: Gendered Visions of Mental Illness in The Hours / Matthew Selway

The Girl in the Corner: Aesthetics of Suffering in a Digitalized Space / Hans T. Sternudd and Anna Johansson

Gregory House: When Pain and Suffering Can Cure / Federica Jorio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-361-7

OCLC:

1096240323

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848883611 DOI