David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization

Dehumanization is a significant but neglected facet of multifaith and interfaith work. When evangelicals and other Christians use the metaphors of disease, warfare, and demonization to talk about religious others, we are drawing on dehumanization. How is it defined? How has it taken place historically, and in the present, by Christians and others? And how can we take steps to combat it within our ranks? We answer these questions in a conversation with David Livingstone Smith, author of On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Oxford University Press, 2020)

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