Not So Sorry - Oakes, Kaya
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"This book explores the history of Christian ideas of forgiveness and how our misunderstandings of forgiveness have contributed to patterns of clergy abuse, sexual violence and harassment, racial injustice, secrecy, and clericalism. The book examines trauma theory, narcissism, and other psychological aspects of forgiveness, as well as theological and sociological angles in our understanding of forgiveness. In her signature combination of history, first-person narrative, theology, reporting and analysis, Oakes brings these exploration to a wide audience, religious and secular, to provoke readers to new understandings of what forgiveness really means"--…mehr

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"This book explores the history of Christian ideas of forgiveness and how our misunderstandings of forgiveness have contributed to patterns of clergy abuse, sexual violence and harassment, racial injustice, secrecy, and clericalism. The book examines trauma theory, narcissism, and other psychological aspects of forgiveness, as well as theological and sociological angles in our understanding of forgiveness. In her signature combination of history, first-person narrative, theology, reporting and analysis, Oakes brings these exploration to a wide audience, religious and secular, to provoke readers to new understandings of what forgiveness really means"--
Autorenporträt
Kaya Oakes is a journalist and author of several books, including The Nones Are Alright and Radical Reinvention. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley and is a contributing writer for America magazine and speaks on topics related to religion, writing, and feminism from coast to coast and abroad. Her work has received multiple awards, with her essays and journalism appearing in The Guardian, Slate, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and On Being. She was born and raised in Oakland, California, where she still lives.