Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Communities of Kinship : Retrieving Christian Practices of Solidarity with Lepers as a Paradigm for Overcoming Exclusion of Older People, Hardback Book

Communities of Kinship : Retrieving Christian Practices of Solidarity with Lepers as a Paradigm for Overcoming Exclusion of Older People Hardback

Hardback

Out of stock

Description

In Communities of Kinship: Retrieving Christian Practices of Solidarity with Lepers as a Paradigm for Overcoming Exclusion of Older Persons, Carlo Calleja describes kinship as a moral category, arguing that practicing kinship with others can cultivate virtues that shape the character of the agent.

Contemporary Western society tends to focus on kinship as the sharing of blood ties or genetic material.

On the other hand, the spiritual kinship that is proposed by religions tends to be exclusive and often nominal.

For this reason, Calleja proposes practices and structures of solidaristic kinship, which involves sharing in the suffering of the other person.

Finding parallels between the exclusion of lepers and the efforts of Christian communities to reforge kinship bonds with them in ancient and medieval times, he argues that communities of kinship with older persons can help cultivate the virtues needed for the flourishing of oneself and society.

Information

Save 5%

£77.00

£72.59

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information