Author : Laura Duhan-Kaplan
Release : 2020-04-17
Genre : Religion
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Encountering the Other - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encountering the Other write by Laura Duhan-Kaplan. This book was released on 2020-04-17. Encountering the Other available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do religious traditions create strangers and neighbors? How do they construct otherness? Or, instead, work to overcome it? In this exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays, scholars and activists from various traditions explore these questions. Through legal and media studies, they reveal how we see religious others. They show that Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Sikh texts frame others in open-ended ways. Conflict resolution experts and Hindu teachers, they explain, draw on a shared positive psychology. Jewish mystics and Christian contemplatives use powerful tools of compassionate perception. Finally, the authors explain how Christian theology can help teach respectful views of difference. They are not afraid to discuss how religious groups have alienated one another. But, together, they choose to draw positive lessons about future cooperation.