BOOK TALK: Welcoming the Stranger.
Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications
Georgetown University, Washington (DC)
September 19, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
| FreeWelcoming the Stranger, a collection of essays, explores hospitality and inclusion in Abrahamic traditions from historical, theoretical, theological, and practical perspectives. It offers an enlightening and compelling discussion of what the Abrahamic traditions teach us regarding welcoming people we don’t know. Join the Center for Jewish Civilization and Mortara Center for International Studies for a conversation with authors Ori Soltes and Rachel Stern, refreshments, and a book signing.
Image above: David Stern, Snow Crash (Lost Agency), 2018-19. Acrylics and pigments on paper, 27 x 35 inches. © David Stern / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This timely book offers theoretical and practical reflections on ‘welcoming the stranger.’ From the theological analysis of Abraham to the legal and political discussion of immigration and refugees, the volume explores how hospitality—welcoming the ‘other’ into our tents—leads to peace and improving the world.—Mehnaz Afridi, Director, Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center and Professor, Religious Studies, Manhattan College
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WELCOMING THE STRANGER
ABRAHAMIC HOSPITALITY AND ITS CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS
Edited by Ori Z Soltes and Rachel Stern
Foreword by Endy Moraes
Publication Date: April 2, 2024
ISBN: 9781531507329
224 pages, 30 color illustrations
Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99
Simultaneous electronic edition available
Published by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art
and the Fordham University Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work
Distributed by Fordham University Press
Book Contributors:
Lindsay Balfour, PhD, Assistant Professor, Coventry University, London (UK)
Thomas Massaro, S.J., Professor of Moral Theology at Fordham University in New York
Endy Moraes, LLM, Director of the Institute on Religion, Law, and Lawyer’s Work at Fordham Law School
Rev Craig B. Mousin, DePaul University; Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Grace School of Applied Diplomacy
Carol Prendergast, Senior Advisor to Alfanar Venture Philanthropy
Zeki Saritoprak, PhD, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies and a Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio
Ori Z Soltes, PhD, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC
Rachel Stern, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York
Mohsin Mohi Ud Din, artist, activist, and founder of the global nonprofit #MeWe International Inc. (#MeWeIntl)
