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  • Chapter 9 - From Resentment to Gratitude

  • from Part III - Gratitude and Society
  • Edited by Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh, Nathanael Vette, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    A Theology of Gratitude
    Published online:
    16 December 2022
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022, pp 127-138

  • Summary

    Siddiqui explains how British multiculturalism has ceded to a politics of resentment, fuelled by anti-immigrant and often anti-Muslim sentiment. Siddiqui draws on the writings of Georg Simmel for whom gratitude fosters emotional and social bonds, countering a narrative of resentment with one of recognition. Rather than seeking an answer in abstract theories of multiculturalism, Siddiqui argues for a refocusing on emotional well-being through gratitude rooted in empathy.

A Theology of Gratitude
  • Christian and Muslim Perspectives
  • Edited by Mona Siddiqui, Nathanael Vette
  • Published online:
    16 December 2022
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022
  • How, from a theological standpoint, should we make sense of gratitude? This rich interdisciplinary volume is the first concertedly to explore theologies of gratitude from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. While the available literature has tended to rhapsodize gratitude to God and others as both a virtue and an obligation, this book by contrast offers something new by detailing ways in which gratitude is complicated by inequality: even to the point of becoming a vice. Gratitude now emerges as something more than a virtue and other than merely transactional. It can be a burden, bringing about indebtedness and an imbalance of power; but it may also be a resonant source of reconciliation and belonging. Topics discussed cover the personal and political dimensions of gratitude, including such issues as justice, multiculturalism, racism, imperialism, grief, memory and hope. The book assembles, from different traditions, some of the leading theologians of our times.

  • Belonging in Exile: James Baldwin in Paris

  • Mona Siddiqui
  • Journal:
    Journal of Law and Religion / Volume 37 / Issue 2 / May 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 May 2022, pp. 244-249

  • James Baldwin’s autobiographical essay “Equal in Paris” is a perceptive and often amusing account of the American writer’s first visit to Paris. An aspiring novelist who left America in rage over his experience of the country’s injustice and contempt toward Black Americans, Baldwin is acutely aware of racial prejudice in majority white societies. He tells of his experience of staying in a dilapidated hotel, of being wrongly accused of theft and then imprisoned in a Paris jail for more than a week over Christmas. Baldwin’s astute observations of Parisian life and its institutions, show how as a Black American, he struggles to understand this new cultural environment which like most Western societies, has its own form of racism. But this is also a story of an artist’s search for a new intellectual home where he can breathe freely and write. His new friendships with other artists and observations about cosmopolitan European life, allow him to assess what it means to be an American in Paris. This includes exploring those social attitudes that divide America and Europe and those that are universal.

  • Epilogue

  • Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Human Struggle
    Published online:
    11 February 2021
    Print publication:
    04 March 2021, pp 195-197

  • Summary

    In this book, the topic of human struggle has been explored through the writings of Christian, Western and Muslim theologians, philosophers and thinkers. The purpose of the comparative approach is to show that the language and experience of struggle and suffering is universal and can lead to a similar search for meaning across the religious experience. Furthermore, while Christians and Muslims anchor this search in their faith in God, very often faith itself can become our greatest struggle.

  • 4 - Contemporary Islam and the Struggle for Beauty

  • Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Human Struggle
    Published online:
    11 February 2021
    Print publication:
    04 March 2021, pp 139-156

  • Summary

    Through a ‘conference of the books’, an imagined conference of Muslim intellects from centuries past, El Fadl speaks of the contemporary ugliness which he feels pervades the Islamic world and attempts to reclaim the moral value of beauty. El Fadl asks the question, ‘What does God command other than ihsan? And, ihsan is derived from the word hasan, which means the good, proper, and beautiful’.2 El Fadl is passionate about what he considers the current societal problems within the Islamic tradition which stem from an epistemological crisis. He writes that while many Muslims have been touched by this book, for the non-Muslim, ‘The Conference offered an opportunity to gain an insider’s view to the struggles, problems, and pains of contemporary Muslims as well as to understand what the Islamic tradition had to offer humanity’. El Fadl sees that faith in God enables humankind to reach out for the transcendent and the beautiful and that we should seek the beautiful because God is beautiful.

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