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Seligman, Adam

 
9780268041076: Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition
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ISBN 10 : 0268041075 ISBN 13 : 9780268041076
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2004

Synopsis

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 so doing it seeks to uncover the sources of toleration and pluralism that exist within the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Most contemporary approaches leave these sources largely unexplored and often marginalize them in current public debates and social agendas. Seligman and his dialogue partners seek to engage traditional understandings to uncover internal components that make dialogue between different religions and cultures possible. Espousing the idea of translation as a metaphor for the tolerant act, Modest Claims takes difference seriously as an aspect of existence that can be neither trivialized nor ignored. It explores and develops specifically religious arguments for tolerance and acceptance of others, as well as new strategies for understanding difference that are not rooted in individualist worldviews.

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

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À propos de l'auteur

Adam B. Seligman is professor of religion at Boston University.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268041075
ISBN 13 
9780268041076
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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