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Adam Seligman - Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Erasmus Institute Books (Hardcover)) - 9780268041069 - V9780268041069
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Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Erasmus Institute Books (Hardcover))

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Description for Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Erasmus Institute Books (Hardcover)) Hardcover. Many current political issues revolve around issues of religion and tolerance, which are usually countered using the doctrines of liberal humanistic virtue. As these doctrines fail to resonate in communities that hold more traditional religious definitions of self and society, this text introduces a new set of arguments on tolerance and tradition. Series: Erasmus Institute Books. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.

Many of the critical political issues of our time—from the 1992–1995 Balkan Wars to the continuing crisis in the Middle East to the role of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe—revolve around issues of religion and tolerance. The predominant approach to these concerns is to espouse the doctrines of liberal humanistic virtue. These doctrines, however, fail to resonate in communities that maintain more traditional religious definitions of self and society.

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. In ... Read more

This important and timely book breathes new life into the search for peace and toleration in an increasingly fractured world.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Erasmus Institute Books
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268041069
SKU
V9780268041069
Shipping Time
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About Adam Seligman
Adam B. Seligman is professor of religion at Boston University. Interlocutors: Nasr Abu Zayd, Peter Berger, Joan Estruch, Menachem Fisch, Shlomo Fischer, Nilüfer Göle, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Sohail H. Hashmi, Rusmir Mahmutćehajić, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch, and Claire Wolfteich.

Reviews for Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Erasmus Institute Books (Hardcover))
"Adam Seligman's Modest Claims contains both personal reflections as well as those of various 'dialogue partners' on the nature and need in our own day of religious toleration." —Christian Scholar's Review “No one is better qualified to assemble such a group … than Adam Seligmen, a tough-minded, profound scholar … Seligman is a master at creating dialogue among visionary thinkers ... Read more

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