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Author : Françoise Mirguet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107146266
An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.
Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781352003079
Compassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present. Along the way, Alvin Finkel assesses the impacts of economic developments, colonialism, political arrangements, gender, race, and social class in influencing how different peoples have defined the rights of individuals and communities facing hardship. From Russia to Iran, from Scandinavia to Vietnam, this book looks at how social policy has been shaped by global social forces such as capitalism, imperialism and neoliberalism and analyses why different countries and regions diverged in their ways of dealing with inequalities and social needs. This is a valuable resource for students on history, sociology or social work degrees taking modules or courses on the history of welfare/social policy or global history.
Author : Kristine Steenbergh,Katherine Ibbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495394
Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.
Author : Katherine Ibbett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812249705
Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.
Author : Khen Lampert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230503755
Throughout history, compassion has stood at the base of the radical cry to change the world order and remedy injustices. It has also been a political tool for society's power-wielders, who have exploited the sense of calling compassion arouses to hide the repressive, belligerent, and manipulative nature of society's power structure. This book analyzes four models of compassion, each representing manifestations of compassion in different cultures and eras: Judeo-Christianity, Buddhism, Modernism, and the author's alternative, a response to neocapitalist postmodernism-radical compassion and its imperative to take action.
Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307595638
One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world—author of such acclaimed books as A History of God, Islam, and Buddha—now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place. Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings, each of us needs to work diligently to cultivate and expand our capacity for compassion. Here, in this straightforward, thoughtful, and thought-provoking book, she sets out a program that can lead us toward a more compassionate life. The twelve steps Armstrong suggests begin with “Learn About Compassion” and close with “Love Your Enemies.” In between, she takes up “compassion for yourself,” mindfulness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our knowledge of others, and “concern for everybody.” She suggests concrete ways of enhancing our compassion and putting it into action in our everyday lives, and provides, as well, a reading list to encourage us to “hear one another’s narratives.” Throughout, Armstrong makes clear that a compassionate life is not a matter of only heart or mind but a deliberate and often life-altering commingling of the two.
Author : Dovid Sears
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0765799871
For many Jews and non-Jews, the Torah, the Talmud and other rabbinic writings have long been interpreted as saying that the Jews alone are God's chosen people. According to Sears, The Path of the Baal Shem Tov, such readings have led to a struggle among Jews between assimilation--losing their particular Jewish identity--and withdrawal--preserving their particular Jewish identity and surviving as a people. Sears contends that this struggle between particularism and universalism is often misguided, for he argues that the particularism of Judaism engenders a "model of spirituality and moral refinement that will inspire the rest of the world to turn to God of its own accord." In order to demonstrate the depth from which Judaism speaks in a universalistic voice, Sears collects a wide range of sources from a number of periods in Jewish history. In the section on "Judaism and Non-Jews," the Talmudic teaching of Rabbi Yochanan, "Whoever speaks wisdom, although he is a non-Jew, is a sage," urges respect for the wisdom of other traditions. In the section on "The Chosen People," two Midrash passages demonstrate the idea of Israel as spiritual model: "God gave the Torah to the Jewish people so that all nations might benefit by it"; "Just as the sacrifice of the dove] atones for transgression, Israel atones for the nations of the world." Finally, in a section on "Messianic Vision," Sears argues that Jewish writings state that it is the Messiah's primary task to return the "entire world" to God and God's teachings. Sears's extensive sourcebook is a rich collection of primary writings on the role of compassion in the Jewish tradition. (Sept.) --Publisher's Weekly
Author : Maureen Fitzgerald
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252047039
The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the early twentieth century. Maureen Fitzgerald argues that their championing of the rights of the poor—especially poor women—resulted in an explosion of state-supported services and programs. Parting from Protestant belief in meager and means-tested aid, Irish Catholic nuns argued for an approach based on compassion for the poor. Fitzgerald positions the nuns' activism as resistance to Protestantism's cultural hegemony. As she shows, Roman Catholic nuns offered strong and unequivocal moral leadership in condemning those who punished the poor for their poverty and unmarried women for sexual transgression. Fitzgerald also delves into the nuns' own communities, from the class-based hierarchies within the convents to the political power they wielded within the city. That power, amplified by an alliance with the local Irish Catholic political machine, allowed the women to expand public charities in the city on an unprecedented scale.
Author : Marvin Olasky
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 089526725X
This is a book of hope at a time when just about everyone but Marvin Olasky has lost hope. The topic is poverty and the underclass. The profound truth that Marvin Olasky forces us to confront is that the problems of the underclass are not caused by poverty. Some of them are exacerbated by poverty, but we know that they need not be caused by poverty, for poverty has been the condition of the vast majority of human communities since the dawn of history, and they have for the most part been communities of stable families, nurtured children, and low crime. It is wrong to think that writing checks will end the problems of the underclass, or even reduce them. - Preface.
Author : Susan Wessel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107125100
This book examines how early Christians cultivated affective compassion as a virtue in a Roman world that valued emotional tranquillity.
Author : Edward U. Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786607485
The Politics of Compassion explores the manifold obstacles that hinder our individual and collective capacity to care for the vulnerable, offering insights from history, religion, ethics, cognitive and social sciences, international relations, public policy, and contemporary politics. It examines both how far we’ve come in addressing poverty and social injustice and how far we still have to go. It concludes by discussing strategies to help us achieve a more consistent practice of compassion in public life.
Author : Howard Joseph,Jack N. Lightstone,Michael Oppenheim
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889207516
These essays represent a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion and, especially, Judaism. Setting aside common scholarly concerns with source criticism and history of interpretation, Shimon Levy argues that in Numbers 11 the redactor has forged diverse elements into a unity. Observing that much of what is said about Second Commonwealth Judaic culture is speculative, Jack Lightstone calls for radical revision of accepted portrayals of the period. Ira Robinson's study of al-Kirkisani's effort to differentiate magic and miracle while demonstrating the rationality of belief in miracle locates his thoughts in the context of Rabbinic and Muslim treatments of the subject. While historians of modern Judaism have acknowledged in the influence of Kant and Hegel, Rousseau, contends Michel Despland, is often overlooked; he opened the way for changes in social and religious life. In Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history Charles Davis finds a significant combining of elements from Kabbalistic and Marxist thought. Michael Oppenheim finds a common core of concerns addressed by modern Jewish philosophers: a struggle with modernity, identification with Jewish thought and values, and commitment to their Jewish communities. Gershon Hundert's "Reflections on the 'Whig' Interpretation of Jewish History" argues—vis-à-vis the Jerusalem school of Zionist historians—that the responsibility of national historians to their community can be fulfilled only by repudiating ideologies that may stand in the way of the search for truth. Howard Joseph's survey of teh extensive literature on the Holocaust indicates the options the authors find most worthy of continued focus. Jerome Eckstein critically examines one of the few published pieces by Joseph Soloveitchik, who combines the Talmudic genius of the Lithuanian Yeshiva world with mastery of the Western intellectual tradition. B. Barry Levy's study of the Artscroll series of translations of and commentaries on biblical literature examines the assumptions and methodology of the series and the hidden agenda that emerges. Frederick Bird's comparison of charity ethics in Judaism and Christianity draws attention to the imprint on these ethics of the formative period of each religion. The volume will be of interest to student of the Bible, Judaism, and Christianity.
Author : Rupen Das
Publisher : Langham Global Library
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783681143
Why does God care for the poor, the vulnerable and the marginalized? This book traces God’s compassion as it is revealed in the Old and New Testaments, exploring the expression and impact of compassion in the early church through its actions and teachings as part of its witness. Focusing on the church’s responsibility to be compassionate, Dr Rupen Das underlines the theological and missiological questions central to any discussion on the compassion of God. Culminating with how compassion is lived out by God’s people, the book looks at concepts of transformation and the demonstration of the kingdom of God in the real world. This book provides an excellent biblical and theological foundation for anyone involved or interested in ministries of social justice, relief, development and compassion.
Author : Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1843843307
An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.
Author : John M. Letiche
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773538207
The influential life of a leading Berkeley scholar who served as an adviser to the United Nations and American and African governments.