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Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World
Adam B. Seligman
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Description for Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World
Paperback. Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges of accommodating difference, however difficult such accommodation may be. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 232 pages, 27 b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating difference, however difficult and uncomfortable such accommodation may be. Drawing on fourteen years of theoretical insights and unique pedagogy, CEDAR-Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion-has worked internationally with community leaders, activists, and other partners to take the insights of anthropology out of the classroom and into the world. Rather than addressing conflict by ... Read more
Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating difference, however difficult and uncomfortable such accommodation may be. Drawing on fourteen years of theoretical insights and unique pedagogy, CEDAR-Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion-has worked internationally with community leaders, activists, and other partners to take the insights of anthropology out of the classroom and into the world. Rather than addressing conflict by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
California Series in Public Anthropology
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520284128
SKU
V9780520284128
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About Adam B. Seligman
Adam B. Seligman is Director of CEDAR and Professor of Religion at Boston University. Rahel R. Wasserfall is Director of Training and Evaluation for CEDAR and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. David W. Montgomery is Director of Program Development for CEDAR.
Reviews for Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World
"An inspiring book which advocates a challenging new approach of how to act and live together in ethnically diverse communities... Offers an attractive vision of how to increase tolerance." Ethnic and Racial Studies