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Hope emerges in the space between our most significant desires and the vicissitudes that define the human condition. The challenges of a recent pandemic and renewal of ancient hostilities around the globe add to a growing list of concerns about the sustainability of life on this planet. The need for hope has never been more palpable. The Oxford Compendium of Hope is the most comprehensive collection of research and scholarship on this topic, with contributions from over 70 scholars across fourteen disciplines. The latest theoretical and empirical research in the humanities, social sciences, and medicine are included along with chapters on race, gender, and the LGBTQ+ experience, as well as migration and human rights. Additional sections address hope in economics, organizational leadership, ecology, technology, and the arts. Extracts from seminal contributions include the philosophical and theological insights of Bloch, Lynch, Marcel, and Moltmann; Cowan on the Australian dreamtime; Menninger and Hinds from psychiatry and nursing; Capps on the development of hope; and Sikkink on human rights.
The fifty-six chapters are divided into twelve sections. To encourage greater interdisciplinary collaboration, the placement of adjacent chapters and sections presume fewer degrees of "epistemological distance" (i.e., common concerns and similar methodologies). The concluding chapter deals with key conceptual issues that confront serious students of hope as well as potential blind spots. Forewords for this compendium were provided by Jan Peter Balkenende, former prime minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Steven C. van den Heuvel & Anthony Scioli
Part I: Hope in Pre-20th Century Western Thought
Chapter 2: Hope in Hebrew and Early Christian Sacred Writings
Martin I. Webber & Koert van Bekkum
Chapter 3: Hope in Ancient Greece and Rome
Scott G. Gravlee
Chapter 4: Hope in the Middle Ages
Andrew Pinsent
Chapter 5: Hope in Early Modernity
Katy Dineen
Chapter 6: Hope in Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Roe Fremstedal
Part II: 20th Century Classics on Hope
Chapter 7: Hope for Psychiatry
Reprinted extracts from Karl Menninger, The Academic Lecture: Hope
Chapter 8: Hope in the Embedded Imagination
Reprinted extracts from William Lynch, Images of Hope
Chapter 9: Hope and the Condition Humaine
Reprinted extracts from Gabriel Marcel, Homo Viator
Chapter 10: Hope in the 'Not-Yet-Become'
Reprinted extracts from Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope
Chapter 11: Hope and Transformative Eschatology
Reprinted extracts from Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope
Part III: Hope in Philosophy
Chapter 12: Hope and Existentialism
Brendan Sweetman
Chapter 13: Hope and Pragmatism
Alexis Dianda
Chapter 14: Hope and Positivity
Ariel Meirav
Chapter 15: Hope and Political Philosophy
Nicholas Smith
Chapter 16: Hope and Moral Psychology
Adrienne Martin
Part IV: Hope in Theology and Religious Studies
Chapter 17: Hope in Judaism
Akiba J. Lerner
Chapter 18: Hope in Christianity
Edward Brooks
Chapter 19: Hope in Islam
Matthew Niemi
Chapter 20: Hope in Buddhism and Hinduism
Paul van der Velde & Ernest Ng
Part V: Hope in Indigenous Faiths & Hope in Spirituality
Chapter 21: Hope in Indigenous Australian Religion
Reprinted extracts from James Cowan, Mysteries of the Dreamtime
Chapter 22: Hope in Native American Religious Traditions
Jace Weaver
Chapter 23: Hope in African Spirituality
Avivit Cherrington
Chapter 24: Hope in Non-Religious Spirituality
Steven C. van den Heuvel
Part VI: Hope in Psychology
Chapter 25: Hope in Human Development
Reprinted extracts from Donald Capps, Agents of Hope
Chapter 26: Hope in Emotion and Basic Needs
Anthony Scioli
Chapter 27: Hope in Cognition
Matthew Gallagher, Lia J. Smith, Elijah R. Murphy & Amy R. Senger
Chapter 28: Hope in Counseling
Denise J. Larsen, Rebecca Hudson Breen, Kenneth Murdoch & Chelsea Hobbs
Part VII: Hope in Illness and Health
Chapter 29: Hope and Pediatric Illness
Naomi T. Katz, Melissa Heywood & Elaine C. Meyer
Chapter 30: Hope and Adolescent Cancer
Reprint from Pamela Hinds, The Hopes and Wishes of Adolescents with Cancer and the Nursing Care that Helps
Chapter 31: Hope and Adult Chronic Illness
Wendy Duggleby
Chapter 32: Hope in Palliative Care
Erik Olsman
Chapter 33: Hope in the Immune System
Anthony Scioli & Sherine F. Elsawa
Part VIII: Hope in Anthropology and Sociology
Chapter 34: Hope in Anthropology
Stef Jansen & Judy Thorne
Chapter 35: Hope and Gang Involvement
Jana Grekul
Chapter 36: Hope and Homelessness
M. Therese Seibert & Cathy Kuhn
Chapter 37: Hope in Migration
Ayse Parla
Chapter 38: Hope in Changing Social Imaginaries
Paul James
Part IX: Hope in Diversity and Equity
Chapter 39: Hope and Human Rights
Reprinted extracts from Kathryn Sikkink, Evidence for Hope
Chapter 40: Hope and Antiracist Practice
Alix Olson & Alexander Zamalin
Chapter 41: Hope and Feminist Theory
Kathie Stockdale
Chapter 42: Hope in LGBTQ+ Persons
Paul Kwon & Aaron Aguilar-Bonnette
Part X: Hope in Business and Economics
Chapter 43: Hope in Behavioral Economics
Emma Pleeging & Martijn Burger
Chapter 44: Hope as an Economic Virtue
Deirdre McCloskey
Chapter 45: Hope and Poverty in Development Economics
Travis Lybbert & Bruce Wydick
Chapter 46: Hope and Leadership in Organizations
Arne Carlsen & Lloyd E. Sandelands
Part XI: Hope in Ecology and Technology
Chapter 47: Hope and Climate Change
Elin Kelsey
Chapter 48: Hope and Political Ecology
Steven C. van den Heuvel
Chapter 49: Hope and Transhumanism
Raymond Hausoul
Chapter 50: Hope and Artificial Intelligence
Beth Singler
Chapter 51: Hope and Social Media
Michael Opgenhaffen, Jonathan Hendrickx & Anthony Scioli
Part XII: Hope in the Arts
Chapter 52: Hope in Literature
Tim DeJong
Chapter 53: Hope in Drama
Jack Isaac Pryor
Chapter 54: Hope in Film
Rinke Dellebeke-van Hell
Chapter 55: Hope in Music
Kellie D. Brown
Chapter 56: Conclusion
Anthony Scioli & Steven C. van den Heuvel
