Understanding Religion through the Eyes of Others

1st Edition - Case Studies of Key Thinkers

By: Timothy Stanley

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Paperback | 9 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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This book studies religion through the eyes of some of its most influential, exemplary and sometimes controversial people. Historically organized and philosophically nuanced, each chapter locates a thinker in their material context to elucidate the impact of their ideas. Figures covered include Philo Judaeus, Adi Shankara, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Julian of Norwich and W.E.B. Du Bois. Empathizing with their different viewpoints aims to build the capacities necessary to live tolerantly in religiously diverse democracies today. It draws students into perennial debates that evoke the habits of mind capable of engaging today's multi-religious societies, and provides options for further reading at the end of each chapter.

Thought provoking and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of world religions, comparative religion, and the history and philosophy of religion.

About the Author

Timothy Stanley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His recent books include Religion after Deliberative Democracy (Routledge 2022), Printing Religion after the Enlightenment (Rowman & Littlefield 2022), and Writing Faith (Fortress 2017).

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Stanley offers a different way of cultivating the empathy necessary for religious pluralism. Move across time and space to understand religion and religious di\erence through someone's else's eyes—and discover our own world anew. Rabbi Dr. Rachel S. Mikva, Herman Schaalman Professor in Jewish Studies

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