Safeguarding the Stranger

Dr Jayme R. Reaves is a public theologian based in the United Kingdom. Originally from the American South, she has worked in post-conflict former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland and focuses on bridging the gap between theology, peacemaking, and reconciliation. She has a MDiv from Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Virginia, an MPhil in Reconciliation and a PhD in Theology from Trinity College, University of Dublin.

Safeguarding the Stranger is an immensely important addition to the literature on hospitality, notably protective hospitality as practiced in the Abrahamic faith traditions. The work reflects extraordinarily deep research and years of interfaith and cross-cultural experience, as well as time logged in some of our world's most conflicted regions. The author combines fluency in feminist and liberationist Christian thought with competence in Hebrew Bible and Quranic studies - and more than a bit of continental philosophy as well. A major contribution by an important new voice, both in its substance and in its method. Highly recommended.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Hospitality, Ethics, and Theology1 Locating the Theological Approach2 Extending Hospitality: Hospitality as Ethical Practice3 Hospitality and the Abrahamic TraditionsPart Two: Protective Hospitality4 Hospitality and Protection5 Protective Hospitality as a Religious PracticeConclusionBibliographySubject and Author IndexScriptural Index