In an age when "collisions of faith" among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors to Encountering the Stranger--six Jewish, six Christian, and six Muslim scholars--takes responsibility to examine their traditions' understandings of the stranger, the "other,"

Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism

"Road Scars is a highly visual scholarly monograph about how roadside car crash shrines place the collective trauma of living in a car culture in the everyday landscapes of automobility"--

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Racialized violence and murders in Greenwich and Birmingham, Le Pen's neo-nationalist party in France, Lega Nord in Italy, neo-nazi violence rocking German society, the repeated arson attacks on refugee centers in Sweden since 1989 - all of these events and phenomena attest to the depth and persistency of racial and