Within a context of globalisation and multiculturalism –spaces of disjuncture and identity fissures, what role could religion (Christianity) play? Steve Biko’s statement concerning religion having a human public face shall be contextualised and put into dialogue with Gabriel Marcel’s concepts of embodiment. The paper concludes that a religion that has a public human face promotes empathy or interconnectedness, providing an alternative con-ceptualisation of anthropology anchored on empathy, participation and inter-subjectivity
