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“All Humans Are Strangers—Almost Everywhere”: Reflections on Human Belonging
Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices, pp.299-329
Springer Nature Singapore
2023
Abstract
This chapter is an attempt to approach interfaith consciousness from the vantage point of personal lived experience. To this end, I give an autoethnographic account of living across cultures, countries and communities comprising diverse faith orientations. These lived experiences have formed and informed my interfaith awareness, which was nurtured over a lifetime of what I call ‘longing for belonging’. I complement this autoethnographic account with biblical reflections on home and homelessness and conclude that my own sense of ‘strangeness’ can lead to a deferential appraisal and appreciation of the perceived ‘foreignness’ of others. This implies extending intellectual hospitality to adherents and proponents of other faiths as a conduit for nurturing and propagating interfaith awareness and practice. The reason is simply this: on the face of it, everybody alive today is a stranger in this world—almost everywhere.
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- Title
- “All Humans Are Strangers—Almost Everywhere”: Reflections on Human Belonging
- Authors
- Johannes Michael Luetz (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Contributors
- Johannes Michael Luetz (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - LegacyDenise A Austin (Editor) - Leaders InstituteAdis Duderija (Editor) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices, pp.299-329
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-99-3862-9_16; 10.1007/978-981-99-3862-9
- ISBN
- 9789819938629
- Copyright note
- This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99975397402621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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