Bookreview: Charles K. Bellinger's Othering

The Original Sin of Humanity

Abstract

There are multiple ways the Other has been constructed within human history, and this othering has affected different forms and levels of social relations and polity. Charles K. Bellinger's discussion consists of an introduction and four chapters which provides an analysis of the term othering as a technical term, its application in contemporary academic discourse, and intellectual thought expressing processes of (anti-)othering from the angles of anthropology, political history, human rights, and theology.