Just Hospitality: God's Welcome in a World of Difference

In this book, theologian Letty Russell redefines the commonly held notion of hospitality as she challenges her readers to consider what it means to welcome the stranger. In doing so, she implores persons of faith to join the struggles for justice.

Rather than an act of limited, charitable welcome, Russell maintains that true hospitality is a process that requires partnership with the "other" in our divided world. The goal is "just hospitality," that is, hospitality with justice.

Russell draws on feminist and postcolonial thinking to show how we are colonized and colonizing, each of us bearing the marks of the history that formed us. With an insightful analysis of the power dynamics that stem from our differences and a constructive theological theory of difference itself, Russell proposes concrete strategies to create a more just practice of hospitality.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 04/02/2009
ISBN: 9780664233150
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Christian Century 08/11/2009 pg. 39