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Picturing Forgiveness after Atrocity

Brudholm, Thomas
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Grøn, Arne
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Brudholm, Thomas
Grøn, Arne
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forgiveness
genocide
prodigal son
reconciliation
transitional justice.
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Religious ethics
Spirituality and ethics
Methods of ethics
Theological ethics
Philosophical ethics
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Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/4031853
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Abstract
The article addresses the question when the advocacy of forgiveness in the wake of political mass violence can be harmful and immoral. It engages with this question primarily by probing the value of different pictures of forgiveness, most importantly Rembrandt’s painting Return of the Prodigal Son and a photograph from post-genocide Rwanda. The critical examination of the value of particular pictures in the advocacy of forgiveness also involves attention to particularly problematic ‘pictures’ (in the sense of notions, imaginaries, representations) of the unforgiving victim, of the choices available to societies responding to a violent past, and of unconditional forgiving.
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2011-05
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SAGE-10.1177/0953946810397441
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0953946810397441
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10.1177/0953946810397441
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