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1 [edition]. |
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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction : The Certainty of Loss and the Ambivalence of Hope; Opening reflection; Overview of the book; Aims and closing reflections; Part One Survivors' and Victims' Perspectives on Loss and Hope; 1 A Collective Testimony by Argentine Genocide Survivors: "The Prison Walls Cry and We Laugh."; 2 Classicide in Communist China: A Laogai Survivor's Reflection; A new vocabulary; The roots of China's classicide; "Rightists" and "Black Classes" under Mao. |
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Classicide as a legacy of the Chinese Communist PartyThe laogai as a machinery of Chinese repression; Remembering the past for the sake of the future; Conclusion: Hope; 3 The Politics of Representations of Mass Atrocity in Sri Lanka and Human Rights Discourse: Challenges to Justice and Recover; Introduction; Death beyond reckoning . . .; Motivation and Intent in historical perspective; The geopolitics of genocide: A crime against peace; Conclusion: Justice, recovery, and hope; 4 Torturing God at the Villa Grimaldi (Chile): Loss of Human Dignity, Hope of Unity; Torturing at the Villa Grimaldi. |
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Narratives on the landscapeThe presence of God in the torture chamber; The theological dungeon; On torture; Theology as history, the first act; Sitz in Leben; Conclusions: The hope of being human; 5 The Iranian Women's Movement: A Narrative of Hope and Loss; Introduction; Section I: Women's movement and agency in Iran and the One Million Signatures Campaign; Section II: Redefining the public and confusing the private; Part Two Interfaith Perspectives on Loss and Hope; 6 The Virtue of Christian Learning from Other Religions: The Substance of Things Hoped for; Benedict XVI's reading of hope. |
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Hope in the Christian study of HinduismHope misunderstood as a tool for judging other people's religions; Hope with respect to one Hindu tradition; Despair and presumption as the opposite of hope; Hope and dialogue; Interreligious hope in practice; 7 A Healing Process in Jewish Theology: From Passivity to Protest to Peace; Part I: Traditional explanations for suffering; Part II: Arguing with God-prayers of protest; Part III: Toward a new God-concept; Part IV: And a new theodicy; Conclusion; 8 May Buddhists Hope? A Christian Enquiry; Hope and historicity; Hope and narrativity. |
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Hope and temporality9 Suffering and Loss within Shi'i and Catholic Traditions in Dialogue; Introduction; Similarities in Shi'i and Catholic traditions; The Ashura narrative as a foundation for dialogue; Islamic liberation theology; Iraqi women in exile; Shi'i self-understanding and Catholic political theology; The political theology of Johann Baptist Metz; Ashura Ritual in Shi'i Islam; Memory and identity; The Ashura narrative as a "Dangerous Memory"; Conclusion; 10 The Pedophile Scandal and Its (Hoped-for) Impact on Catholic Intra- and Interreligious Dialogue; Introduction: Disgraced. |
| Summary |
What are the spiritual consequences of abuse and trauma? Where is God? How and why does such senseless suffering occur? What is the relationship between loss and hope? What are the benefits of examining loss and hope from an interreligious focus? These are some of the questions addressed in this volume, written by leading international scholars and which also includes contributions by those who have suffered: survivors of genocide and state terror. Case studies of loss and hope from around the world are discussed, including from the United States, Ireland, Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Iraq, Argenti. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Suffering -- Religious aspects.
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Suffering -- Religious aspects. |
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Suffering.
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Suffering. |
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Loss (Psychology) -- Religious aspects.
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Loss (Psychology) -- Religious aspects. |
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Loss (Psychology)
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Loss (Psychology) |
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Violence -- Religious aspects.
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Violence -- Religious aspects. |
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Violence.
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Violence. |
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Theology. |
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Interfaith relations. |
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Aspects of religion (non-Christian) |
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies. |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. |
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RELIGION -- Theology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Admirand, Peter, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Loss and hope. 1 [edition] 9781472525413 (DLC) 2013044894 (OCoLC)857879095 |
| ISBN |
9781472529077 (electronic book) |
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1472529073 (electronic book) |
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1472523865 |
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9781472523860 |
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9781472594662 (online) |
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1472594665 |
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9781472525413 |
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1472525418 |
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9781472523860 (epub) |
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