Books written by Adam B. Seligman
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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Indeed, until the nineteenth century and the portrayal of Shylock by the actor Edmund Keane, the play was performed as a comedy. It was Keane and following him such actors as Edwin Booth and Henry Irving who drew out the humanity of ...
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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
We have also been strongly influenced here by the much earlier work of Alfred Schutz, especially on the epoché, the suspension of disbelief that allows one to enter an “as if” world. See Schutz, “Transcendences and Multiple Realities.
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Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World
Much useful work on tolerance can be found in edited collections by Heyd (1996) and Mendus (1988), as well as in the works of Walzer (1997) and Seligman (2004). Further works, such as by Stanton and Stroumsa (1998), Sachedina (2001), ...
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Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and Its Institutionalization
Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building.
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The Idea of Civil Society
"Seligman argues his case in an attractively open manner and with great range, both in terms of ideas and institutions. His is the best book on the subject at the moment: lucid, high-powered, convincing, and approachable.
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Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism
"This book offers a comparative analysis of religious education and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole.
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Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism
The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole.
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Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition
Modest Claims, which features essays by Seligman and dialogues between scholars representing the three monotheistic faiths, provides the beginnings of a very different set of arguments on tolerance and tradition....
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Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is to say, the challenge of pluralism in our world.
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How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
In this manner , Rabbi Nurock not only rooted the Holocaust in the historical series of Jewish catastrophes but also tied ... In 1977 , then Prime Minister Menachem Begin suggested separating the themes of catastrophe and redemption .
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Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own ...
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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J, Simon ... that Eros is the unifier and the force that blurs boundaries (as in his contrast of Eros and Necessity in Civilization and Its Discontents).
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Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis
This book focuses on private vows and oaths including those publically proclaimed. Through analysis of legal, liturgical, mythical and literary works, it seeks to uncover a phenomenology of oaths and vows.