Publisher's Synopsis
Public apologies have become increasingly common scenes and representative moments in what appears to be a global process of forgiveness. The apology-forgiveness dynamic is familiar to all of us, but what do these rituals of atonement mean when they are applied to political and historical events? In this book, Ashraf Rushdy argues that the proliferation of apologies by politicians, nations, and churches for past events - such as American slavery or the Holocaust - can be understood as a historical phenomenon.
