Encountering the Other(s)

<p>Europe and the United States now confront many of the same unresolved issues of nationalist religious racial and ethnic intolerance. The book addresses the question: How can the humanistic disciplines and social sciences play a role in a political transformation or address cultural difference? This difference the other may be a racial ethnic gendered religious or colonial Other.</p><p>Contributors to this book focus on the serious political questions posed by the problems of strangeness the other in the present climate of accelerating social change and global shifts in political power.</p>