Identity and Difference A. B. Jackson World Religions

World Religions

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Identity and Difference A. B. Jackson World ReligionsThis text outlines the challenge presented by key debates on identity to central questions of gender, sexuality, embodiment, health, "race" and nation. It includes discussion of: the importance of identity and difference in the contemporary world at multiple levels global, local and personal; the ways in which identities are constructed for and by individuals; notions of the fixity of identity and difference; explanations of identity and difference