Adam B. Seligman Book order
January 18, 1954
Adam B. Seligman explores the complex interplay between religion, culture, and society, focusing on how faith manifests in the public square and shapes communal life. His work delves into profound questions of identity and collective experience, often drawing on his extensive international background. Seligman aims to understand how diverse communities navigate difference and religious contention. His approach is both analytical and practical, seeking to connect academic insights with the real-world challenges of our time.
- 2024
- 2008
Ritual and its Consequences
- 248 pages
- 9 hours of reading
This book argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity. Our contemporary age has, at great risk, downplayed the importance of ritual. Drawing on examples from Chinese, Greek, Jewish, and contemporary culture, the book presents an innovative interdisciplinary account of how ritual works.
- 2003
Modernity's Wager
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
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 moral authority. This book argues that 'the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis' in the forms of ethnic and racial politics. schovat popis