Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Sheila C. Bibb -- As Lions, as Lambs: Forgiving the Unrepentant Wrongdoer / Gabriel Gerard Gross -- A Philosophical Exploration of Forgiveness in Islam / Mriganka Sankar Poddar -- Christian Forgiveness and a Ghanaian Traditional Belief / Alice Matilda Nsiah -- Forgiveness as an Experience of Ritual Cleansing in African Religion / Bartholomew Chidili -- Forgiveness in Turkish Culture / Defne Erdem Mete -- Old Order Amish Approaches to Teaching Community Forgiveness / Angela Kueny and Sandra Cardenas -- An Exploration of Relationships between the Propensity to Forgive Severe Offenses, Individual’s Moral Rationales and Their Preferences for Restorative and Retributive Justice / Luis Arturo Pinzon-Salcedo , Natalia Silva and Silvia Martínez -- Revising the TRC’s Concept of Forgiveness in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit / Francesca Mussi -- Forgiveness: Complexities and Paradoxes in the Context of Genocide and Slavery / Eva Kahana , Boaz Kahana , Timothy Goler and Julia Kay Wolf -- I Should Help, but I Wouldn’t: The Evolutionary Psychology of Revenge and Its Application in Domestic Violence Intervention / Susan DiVietro and Jordan Kiper -- Overcoming Resentment: Hannah Arendt on the Virtue of Forgiveness / Marinus Schoeman -- Forgiving Architecture: The Case of Gianni Pettena / Leslie Anne Boldt -- Forgive and Forget, but How? / Aysel Demir -- For Authentic Forgiveness: Which Anthropological Paradigm? / Giulia Maniezzi -- The Paradox of Forgiveness: Forgiving the Unforgivable / Ilana Shiloh.