Cultivating Empathy

Cultivating Empathy The Worth and Dignity of Every Person--Without Exception

Paperback (13 Oct 2016)

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Publisher's Synopsis

An emotionally honest and personal exploration of conflict that introduces a creative and compassionate way to develop empathetic responses.

In Cultivating Empathy, Reverend Nathan C. Walker explores the concept of the moral imagination-a way we can project ourselves into a conflict and understand all perspectives, aware that understanding need not imply agreement.

Walker presents a series of revealing essays about his wrestlings with personal and cultural conflicts and his commitment to stop "otherizing"-which occurs when we either demonize people or romanticize them. His remedy for these kinds of projections is to employ the moral imagination as an everyday spiritual practice. Through his engaging and thought-provoking vignettes, he endeavors to find connection with skinheads, murderers, homophobic preachers, privileged 1-percenters, and Monsanto executives. As he experiments with this approach, he shows a model that can help us all nurture greater empathy for those we have previously held in contempt.

Book information

ISBN: 9781558967748
Publisher: Skinner House Books
Imprint: Skinner House
Pub date:
DEWEY: 177.7
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxiv, 101
Weight: 192g
Height: 142mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 9mm