"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.“


-Timothy Radcliffe

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Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

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