ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the potential tonalities of worldviews, and the other, the rather enigmatic topic of seeing and seeing-through worldviews. Some quite unfamiliar topics have been added to very familiar themes of religious studies with the intention of stimulating discussion and signposting directions of further creative thought. The idioms of ‘seeing', ‘insight', and the more culturally nuanced notion of the ‘gaze', are highly relevant, and even have their own academic niche. One consequence of such an entry into ‘other' worldviews is that it may trigger a reflexive response, whether of excitement or even of defence. Some others, by contrast, certainly understand the relativity of worldviews but come to accept the wisdom of explicitly committing themselves to what they had once taken for granted albeit in a modified fashion.
