Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Forgiveness and Other Elements of Moral Repair
	1	 Forgiveness and the Human Condition
	2	 The Global Career of an Inconsistent Idea
	3	 Further Controversies on Forgiveness
	4	 Diversifying Methods of Moral Repair
	References
Overview of Contributions
Part I: Western Traditions of Conceptualizing Forgiveness
	Forgiving Sin
		References
	Interrupting the Cycle of Violence Without Forgiveness? The Story of Joseph in the Bible and Early Jewish Literature
		1	 The Biblical Story of Joseph
		2	 The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
		3	 Conclusion
		References
	“You are Better than Your Deeds”: The Modern Theory of Forgiveness and Its Christian Background
		1	 The Modern Theory of Forgiveness
		2	 Forgiveness According to the Greek Understanding
		3	 Augustine: The Foundation of the Modern Concept of Forgiveness
		References
	A Christian View: Joseph Butler on Resentment and Forgiveness
		1	 Introduction: Christianity and Forgiveness
		2	 Butler’s Qualified Defence of Resentment
		3	 Butler on the Command to Forgive
		4	 Forgiveness as a Virtue
		References
	Verzeihen but not Vergeben: A Distinction Drawn from German Language Usage
		References
	Amnesty—Amnesia—Anamnesis: Temporal Relations and Structural Antagonisms in the Moral Economy of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
		1	 Introduction: Structural Problems of Reconciliation by Proxy Within Spaces of Social Resonance
		2	 Amnesty—Amnesia—Anamnesis: The Temporality of Processing the Past in the Wake of Dictatorships
		3	 Between Obstinacy and the Readiness for Forgiveness: The Inner-German Engagement with the Burden of Dictatorship
		4	 Concluding Remarks: Toward a Culture of Clemency
		References
	Just Another “Legend of the Forgiving Jew”? The Art of Coping with Wrongdoing and How Literature Can Assist
		1	 Forgiveness Versus Resentment: A Deadlocked Situation?
		2	 Writing the Holocaust: Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
		References
	On Revenge: The Other of Forgiveness
		1	 Revenge as the Eerie Modern Antithesis of Forgiveness and Justice
		2	 Revenge and Forgiveness in the Context of Acephalous Societies and Revenge Cultures
		3	 Hidden Vengeance in Today’s Culture
		4	 Revenge and Moral Repair
		References
Part II: Cases and Concepts of Moral Repair and Forgiveness from Diverse Cultural Viewpoints
	Karma in Buddhism and the Problems of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Religious Comparison of “Guilt” and “Forgiveness”
		1	 Introduction
		2	 Object and Process of Comparison
		3	 Family Resemblance
		4	 Karma
		5	 Is It Possible to Delete Karma?
		6	 Does the Law of Karma Describe a Vicious Cycle?
		7	 Conclusion 1
		8	 Conclusion 2
		References
	Forgiveness in Neo-Confucianism
		1	 Introduction
		2	 Classical Confucianism: A Brief Overview
		3	 The Neo-Confucian Perspective
		4	 The Emotion of Shame and Cosmic Hierarchy
		5	 Punishment, Revenge, and the Possibility of Pardon
		6	 Conclusion
		References
	Practicing Forgiveness in Chosŏn Korea: With Some Observations on Confucian Normative Discourse
		1	 Guilt and Reconciliation in Contemporary Korea
		2	 Forgiveness in Premodern “Vernacular” Culture
		3	 Confucian Literati’s Ambivalent Stance
		4	 Guilt and Forgiveness in Dealings with the Dead
		5	 Bonding through Resentment
		6	 Distinct Codes of Communication in a Shared Moral Universe
		Appendix: Chinese Confucians between Forgiveness and Rigidity Heiner Roetz
		References70
	The Place of Forgiveness in Conflict Management: Scale-Bound Institutional Arrangements in the Moroccan Nomosphere
		1	 Introduction
		2	 Frameworks and Arenas of Forgiving
		3	 Ethnography of a Fatal Car Accident
		4	 Institutional Arrangements
		5	 Infrastructures of Conflict Processing and Their Potential to Fail
		6	 Institutionalized Forgiveness
		7	 Embedded Forgiveness
		8	 Forgiveness, Promise, and Future-Making
		9	 Concluding Remarks
		References
	Negotiating Truth-Seeking, Ritual Television, and Healing in Mozambique
		1	 Introduction
		2	 Symbolic Structures and Embodied Accountability in Gorongosa
		3	 Civil War Violence and the Emergence of Gamba Spirits and Gamba Healers
		4	 Mass Media Technologies and Divination Practices in the Post-War Era
		5	 A Case of Serious Offense Perpetrated During the Civil War
		6	 Divinatory Television: Sounds and Sights of Movement
		7	 Follow-Up of the Ritual Film
		8	 Clients as Producers and Consumers of Knowledge
		9	 Conclusion
		References
	Balancing Individual Dignity and Communal Indignation in African Religious Ethics of Forgiveness
		1	 Discourse on Forgiveness: Personal and Political
		2	 Healing Through Social Forgetting and Public Silence: Mozambique and Sierra Leone
		3	 In Defense of Forgiveness: Tutu
		4	 Reconciliation Through Restitution: Soyinka
		5	 Conclusion: Interfacing Tutu and Soyinka
		References
Index