Description: Issues of race, gender, nationality and religion have been the breeding ground of conflict and oppression throughout history. This book provides an engaging assessment of the dangers of defining the self against the other.
Review Quotes:
"The multifaceted dialogue between a sociologist and a theologian points to new avenues of thinking about our relationship and accountability toward the Other. I recommend this remarkable text enthusiastically." - Kwok Pui-lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"This volume represents an important advance in the analysis of otherness and difference, for the way in which it approaches a topic that demands an interdisciplinary approach." - Christopher Craig Brittain, University of Aberdeen