Others - A Very Short Book About Beliefs

"I've written this book about beliefs because I think we don't really understand other people, and what they believe. And that in the 21st century, this is rather startling, and possibly quite disturbing. And that if we understood people better, we might have an easier time of it in our local and national politics. In our international politics, for sure. In our churches and communities, and in our societies. And maybe in our neighbourhood. Just imagine Ned Flanders and Homer Simpson getting along well. The book does look at some weird and wacky beliefs. And although odd beliefs are wryly observed in this book, it has a subversive subtext, and challenges people not to write-off other beliefs as irrational, weird or daft. The book is an invitation to reconsider others in the light of what we don't know: the book is anti-prejudice"--