Transformative Tears
Genesis's Joseph and Mengzi's Shun
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3208149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Kuhlmann (0000-0002-8665-2098, Renmin University of China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel16030341 |
| OpenAlex | W4408293262 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
By comparing two significant characters in a Biblical and a Confucian story, respectively, this article examines how the two traditions referred to share a common understanding of what "reconciliation" is meant to be. I compare Joseph in Genesis and Shun in the Mencius, focusing on how their crying contributes to familial reconciliation. The comparison raises anthropological commonalities between these narratives concerning structures of violence and the process of personal transformation leading to interpersonal reconciliation. There is particular emphasis on the significance of emotions: the way in which tearful emotions are expressed and perceived functions either as cause (Shun) or effect (Joseph) of the aggressor's transformation, thus triggering the reconciliatory process. Following the suggested interpretation of these narratives as historic encounters between cultures of different provenance, the commonalities found in both approaches to reconciliation can potentially serve as a source of inspiration for present-day relations between religions and civilizations
Art · Pedagogy · Tears · Transformative learning · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Surgery
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation
Varieties of Narrative Analysis
Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy
Is There No Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mengzi?
Special Topic: Filial Piety: The Root of Morality or the Source of Corruption?
Revealing Contingency Through Shun's 舜 Ascension to the Throne
Mencius and Early Chinese Thought
Wilhelm Gesenius’ Hebräisches und Aramäisches Handwörterbuch Über Das Alte Testament
Zur, Sage Von Shun
To Become a Filial Son, a Loyal Subject, or a Humane Person?—On the Confucian Ideas about Humanity
David Wong on Emotions in Mencius
Is There a Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mencius
"Some Notes on Emotion, "East and West
From the Order of Zong Fa (宗法) to the Order of Ren Lun (人倫)-Confucianism and the Transformation of the Paradigm of Early Chinese Communities
The Reading of the Mencius by Korean Confucian Scholars
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |