An Early History Of Compassion
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Author | : Françoise Mirguet |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108509576 |
In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus, comprised a hybrid of Hebrew, Greek, and Roman constructions; depending on the texts, they were a spontaneous feeling, a practice, a virtue, or a precept of the Mosaic law. The requirement to feel for those who suffer sustained the identity of the Jewish minority, both creating continuity with its traditions and emulating dominant discourses. Mirguet's book will be of interest to scholars of early Judaism and Christianity for its sensitivity to the role of feelings and imagination in the shaping of identity. An important contribution to the history of emotions, it explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism. It also contributes to understanding how compassion has come to be so highly valued in Western cultures.
Author | : Françoise Mirguet |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107146267 |
An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.
Author | : Kristine Steenbergh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108495397 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812249704 |
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 | : Marvin Olasky |
Publisher | : Regnery Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1994-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780895267252 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2016-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107125103 |
This book examines how early Christians cultivated affective compassion as a virtue in a Roman world that valued emotional tranquillity.
Author | : Susan Lanzoni |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0300240929 |
A surprising, sweeping, and deeply researched history of empathy—from late-nineteenth-century German aesthetics to mirror neurons†‹ Empathy: A History tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of “empathy” in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy’s ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung or “in-feeling” in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and nature. Remarkably, this early conception of empathy transformed into its opposite over the ensuing decades. Social scientists and clinical psychologists refashioned empathy to require the deliberate putting aside of one’s feelings to more accurately understand another’s. By the end of World War II, interpersonal empathy entered the mainstream, appearing in advice columns, popular radio and TV, and later in public forums on civil rights. Even as neuroscientists continue to map the brain correlates of empathy, its many dimensions still elude strict scientific description. This meticulously researched book uncovers empathy’s historical layers, offering a rich portrait of the tension between the reach of one’s own imagination and the realities of others’ experiences.
Author | : Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen |
Publisher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781843843306 |
An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.
Author | : Maureen Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2023-12-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252047036 |
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 | : Monty L. Lynn |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725251183 |
Although not always unswervingly, from antiquity until today, Christians have engaged in charity. As settings changed, compassion evolved, laying in place an ongoing mosaic of Christian ideas and institutions surrounding care. From the antique and medieval to the modern and contemporary, each age offers unique actors and insights into how compassion is viewed and achieved. We consider repeating motifs and novel appearances in the arc of Christian compassion which enlighten and inspire. Encountered on the journey are the formation and sacrifice of ancient Christians; an emphasis on virtues taught through sparing and sharing; the nascent social welfare of the Byzantine church; the sacralization and mobilization of a medieval church; innovative ideas from reformers who advance the role of the state; and modern movements in justice, peace, humanitarianism, mutual aid, and community development.