Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair

Chapter 1: Introduction: Forgiveness and other Elements of Moral RepairChapter 2: Overview of ContributionsPart I: Western Traditions of Conceptualizing ForgivenessChapter 3: Forgiving SinChapter 4: Interrupting the Cycle of Violence without Forgiveness? The Story of Joseph in the Bible and Early Jewish LiteratureChapter 5: "You are better than your deeds": The Modern Theory of Forgiveness and Its Christian BackgroundChapter 6: A Christian View: Joseph Butler on Resentment and ForgivenessChapter 7: Verzeihen but not Vergeben: A Distinction Drawn from German Language UsageChapter 8: Amnesty - Amnesia - Anamnesis: Temporal Relations and Structural Antagonisms in the Moral Economy of Forgiveness and ReconciliationChapter 9: Just another "Legend of the Forgiving Jew"? The Art of Coping with Wrongdoing and How Literature Can AssistChapter 10: On Revenge: The Other of ForgivenessPart II: Cases and Concepts of Moral Repair and Forgiveness from Diverse Cultural ViewpointsChapter 11: Karma in Buddhism and the Problems of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Religious Comparison of 'Guilt' and 'Forgiveness'Chapter 12: Forgiveness in Neo-ConfucianismChapter 13: Practicing Forgiveness in Chos¿n Korea: With Some Observations on Confucian Normative Discourse Chapter 14: The Place of Forgiveness in Conflict Management: Scale-bound Institutional Arrangements in the Moroccan NomosphereChapter 15: Negotiating Truth-Seeking, Ritual Television, and Healing in MozambiqueChapter 16: Balancing Individual Dignity and Communal Indignation in African Religious Ethics of Forgiveness

Maria-Sibylla Lotter, Professor of Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and author of Scham, Schuld, Verantwortung.

Saskia Fischer, Research Associate in German Studies and Comparative Literature, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, and author of Ritual und Ritualität im Drama nach 1945.