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Loss and hope : global, interreligious and interdisciplinary perspectives / [edited by] Peter Admirand.

Contributor(s): Admirand, Peter [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Description: xi, 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474264815; 1474264816Subject(s): Suffering -- Religious aspects | Suffering | Loss (Psychology) -- Religious aspects | Loss (Psychology) | Hope -- Religious aspects | Violence -- Religious aspects | ViolenceLOC classification: BL65.S85 | L67 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the certainty of loss and the ambivalence of hope / Peter Admirand -- Survivors' and victims' perspectives on loss and hope -- A collective testimony by Argentine genocide survivors : "the prison walls cry and we laugh" / Alicia Partnoy -- Classicide in communist China : a Laogai survivor's reflection / Harry Wu -- The politics of representations of mass atrocity in Sri Lanka and human rights discourse : challenges to justice and recovery / Jude Lal Fernando -- Torturing God and the Villa Grimaldi (Chile) : loss of human dignity, hope of unity / Mario I. Aguilar -- The Iranian women's movement : a narrative of hope and loss / Roja Fazaeli -- Interfaith perspectives on loss and hope -- The virtue of Christian learning from other religions : the substance of things hoped for / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- A healing process in Jewish theology : from passivity to protest to peace / Anson Laytner -- May Buddhists hope? A Christian enquiry / John D'Arcy May -- Suffering and loss within Shiʻi and Catholic traditions in dialogue / Kieran Flynn -- The pedophile scandal and its (hoped-for) impact on Catholic Intra- and Interrelgious dialogue / Peter Admirand -- Ethical and interdisciplinary perspectives on loss and hope -- Intercultural resources for reconciliation and peace : drinking from our own wells / Felix Wilfred -- Loss and hope in Levinas's Otherwise than Being and Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate / Steven Shankman -- Practicing a-tonal ethics : the loss of old certainties as the ground of our hope / Celia Kenny -- Losing confidence in free-market economics and free-market religion : recovering true hope / Joerg Rieger -- Journey from optimism to hope / David Burrell, C.S.C. -- Afterword : what shape does hope take when loss is embodied in death? / Fulata L. Moyo.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.

Introduction : the certainty of loss and the ambivalence of hope / Peter Admirand -- Part 1: Survivors' and victims' perspectives on loss and hope -- A collective testimony by Argentine genocide survivors : "the prison walls cry and we laugh" / Alicia Partnoy -- Classicide in communist China : a Laogai survivor's reflection / Harry Wu -- The politics of representations of mass atrocity in Sri Lanka and human rights discourse : challenges to justice and recovery / Jude Lal Fernando -- Torturing God and the Villa Grimaldi (Chile) : loss of human dignity, hope of unity / Mario I. Aguilar -- The Iranian women's movement : a narrative of hope and loss / Roja Fazaeli -- Part 2: Interfaith perspectives on loss and hope -- The virtue of Christian learning from other religions : the substance of things hoped for / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- A healing process in Jewish theology : from passivity to protest to peace / Anson Laytner -- May Buddhists hope? A Christian enquiry / John D'Arcy May -- Suffering and loss within Shiʻi and Catholic traditions in dialogue / Kieran Flynn -- The pedophile scandal and its (hoped-for) impact on Catholic Intra- and Interrelgious dialogue / Peter Admirand -- Part 3: Ethical and interdisciplinary perspectives on loss and hope -- Intercultural resources for reconciliation and peace : drinking from our own wells / Felix Wilfred -- Loss and hope in Levinas's Otherwise than Being and Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate / Steven Shankman -- Practicing a-tonal ethics : the loss of old certainties as the ground of our hope / Celia Kenny -- Losing confidence in free-market economics and free-market religion : recovering true hope / Joerg Rieger -- Journey from optimism to hope / David Burrell, C.S.C. -- Afterword : what shape does hope take when loss is embodied in death? / Fulata L. Moyo.

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