Compassion
Subtitle: loving our neighbor in an age of globalization
By: Maureen H. O'Connell.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Maryknoll, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781570758454
Subjects: Compassion; Political theology; Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Whites -- United States -- Attitudes; Globalization; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Overview; title: The Good Samaritan reprise; title: American compassion in a global age : convenient samaritanism; title: Dispatches from the road to Jericho : why we need compassion more than ever; title: Challenges to authentic samaritanism; title: What are they saying about compassion in philosophical ethics?; title: Compassion as expression of emotive reasoning; title: Compassion as virtue for moral development; title: Compassion as virtue for social order; title: Philosophical foundations for new compassion; title: What are they saying about compassion in theological ethics?; title: Sacred narratives of divine compassion; title: Compassion and politically dangerous discipleship; title: Compassion and social transformation; title: Which of these was a neighbor to the person suffering from injustice?; title: Compassion as upheaval in the political philosophy of Martha C. Nussbaum; title: Perceiving reality : artistotelian liberalism from ancient Greece to the United Nations interpreting the social reality by means of the upheaval of emotions; title: Transforming social reality : Nussbaum's capability approach to justice; title: Concluding remarks : compassion as an upheaval; title: Compassion as interruption in the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz; title: Facing the suffering people of the times; title: Perceiving reality : compassion as political; title: Interpreting reality : compassion as mystical; title: Transforming reality : an anthropology of the political subject; title: Political compassion as a first-world interruption; title: Christian ethics after Katrina : political compassion in social disasters; title: The massively uneven tragedies of a social disaster; title: Perceiving social disasters through relational anthropology; title: Interpreting social disasters through interruptions; title: Transforming social disasters through empowerment, humility, and solidarity; title: Compassion after Katrina; title: Transforming the Jericho road : political compassion and global ethics; title: Global ethics : an age-old question with new-age urgency; title: Political compassion : loving our neighbor in an age of globalization; title: Justice as experiential vision; title: A reprise of the Good Samaritan.