Description
About the Author
Ilana Maymind, PhD, teaches in the department of religious studies at Chapman University.
Reviews
A timely and yet history-rich reflection on the nature of exile and the refugee experience, Maymind's book is a keenly conducted exercise in drawing insights interculturally about the origins and effortful perfecting of empathy. Engaged through the lenses of Shinran's and Maimonides' biographies of exile, the concept of human nature is shown to have an often unsettling depth of relational complexity which Maymind then skillfully weaves into broader reflections on the ethical necessity of exile from familiar patterns of presupposition and prejudice. Exile and Otherness builds a case for embracing strangeness in the pursuit, not simply of greater tolerance for difference, but of achieving ever greater qualities of mutual inclusion. -- Peter D. Hershock, Asian Studies Development Program
Book Information
ISBN 9781498574587
Author Ilana Maymind
Format Hardback
Page Count 190
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 472g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 159mm * 21mm