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  • Idea Of Civil Society

    by Adam Seligman ...
    As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam Seligman identifies the neglect of the idea of "civil society" as a central concern common to both cultures today. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Innerworldly Individualism

    Charismatic Community and its Institutionalization

    by Adam B. Seligman ...
    Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building. Seligman analyzes how cultural assumptions of collective identity and social authority emerged out of the religious beliefs of the first generation of settlers in New England. He goes on to examine how these assumptions crystallized three ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Boundaries and Community

    Rules for Re-Engagement

    by Adam B. Seligman ...
    Series series Building Community
    Boundaries and Community is an essential guide for building bridges in a world marked by deep divisions. Across eleven concise chapters, this book offers practical tools and reflective insights for fostering meaningful connections within and across racially, ethnically, politically, and religiously divided communities. Rather than simply describing the problems that fracture our collective lives, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ritual and Its Consequences

    An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

    by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J, Simon ...
    This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • How Things Count as the Same

    Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

    by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller ...
    In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we live in harmony with groups who may not share the sense of a common fate? Such relationships lie at the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Modernity's Wager

    Authority, the Self, and Transcendence

    by Adam B. Seligman ...
    Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. 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 ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Problem of Trust

    by Adam B. Seligman ...
    The problem of trust in social relationships was central to the emergence of the modern form of civil society and much discussed by social and political philosophers of the early modern period. Over the past few years, in response to the profound changes associated with postmodernity, trust has returned to the attention of political scientists, sociologists, economists, and public policy analysts. ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Living with Difference

    How to Build Community in a Divided World

    by Adam B. Seligman, Rahel R. Wasserfall, David W. Montgomery ...
    Series Book 37 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    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 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism

    Edited by Adam B. Seligman ...
    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. They pose a crucial question: can religious education contribute to a shared public sphere and foster solidarity across different ethnic and religious communities? In many traditional ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger reveals five signs that point to the supernatural and its place in a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief. Using five signs evident in ordinary life—order, play, hope, damnation, and humor—Berger ... Read more

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  • Theology and Public Philosophy

    Four Conversations

    by Jeanne Heffernan Schindler, Joshua Mitchell, Robin Lovin, Michael L. Budde, Jean Porter, Eloise A. Buker, Christopher Beem, Peter Berkowitz, Fred Dallmayr, J. Budziszewski, Charles Taylor, William Schweiker, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Charles Mathewes, Jonathan Chaplin, Jean Bethke Elshtain ...
    This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that so often dominate discussions of religion and public life, the contributors address such subjects as ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD