Chapter 1: Introduction: Forgiveness and other Elements of Moral Repair
Chapter 2: Overview of Contributions
Part I: Western Traditions of Conceptualizing Forgiveness
Chapter 3: Forgiving Sin
Chapter 4: Interrupting the Cycle of Violence without Forgiveness? The Story of Joseph in the Bible and Early Jewish Literature
Chapter 5: "You are better than your deeds" : The Modern Theory of Forgiveness and Its Christian Background
Chapter 6: A Christian View: Joseph Butler on Resentment and Forgiveness
Chapter 7: Verzeihen but not Vergeben: A Distinction Drawn from German Language Usage
Chapter 8: Amnesty Amnesia Anamnesis: Temporal Relations and Structural Antagonisms in the Moral Economy of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Chapter 9: Just another "Legend of the Forgiving Jew"? The Art of Coping with Wrongdoing and How Literature Can Assist
Chapter 10: On Revenge: The Other of Forgiveness
Part II: Cases and Concepts of Moral Repair and Forgiveness from Diverse Cultural Viewpoints
Chapter 11: Karma in Buddhism and the Problems of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Religious Comparison of Guilt and Forgiveness
Chapter 12: Forgiveness in Neo-Confucianism
Chapter 13: Practicing Forgiveness in Choson Korea: With Some Observations on Confucian Normative Discourse
Chapter 14: The Place of Forgiveness in Conflict Management: Scale-bound Institutional Arrangements in the Moroccan Nomosphere
Chapter 15: Negotiating Truth-Seeking, Ritual Television, and Healing in Mozambique
Chapter 16: Balancing Individual Dignity and Communal Indignation in African Religious Ethics of Forgiveness

In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude overcoming feelings of resentment and the desire for revenge was always virtuous. Recently, however, this idea has been questioned. The contributors to this volume do not take sides for or against forgiveness but rather examine its meaning and function against the backdrop of a more complex understanding of moral repair in a variety of social, circumstantial, and cultural contexts. The book aims to gain a differentiated understanding of the European traditions regarding forgiveness, revenge, and moral repair that have shaped our moral intuitions today whilst also examining examples from other cultural contexts (Asia and Africa, in particular) to explore how different cultural traditions deal with the need for moral repair after wrongdoing. Maria-Sibylla Lotter, Professor of Philosophy, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany, and author of Scham, Schuld, Verantwortung. Saskia Fischer, Research Associate in German Studies and Comparative Literature, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany, and author of Ritual und Ritualitat im Drama nach 1945