ABSTRACT
We live in a world of anxieties. In our current age, for a variety of reasons, people are anxious about identity, whether as individuals in a consumerized world or as communities struggling to make sense of ‘who we are’ in the light of ‘others’ who are different from but related in complex ways to ‘us’. Nevertheless, we also live in a world in which there are movements towards solidarities with one another, attempts to express connection and to find common cause. Religious traditions are informed by this context no less than they aim to affect it themselves.
