Rethinking Pluralism - Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity

Zusatztext This is a work of great substance and commitment, drawing atypically from a broad range of human experience and intellect. It is a living seminar on the possibilities of human understanding and the potential for living together in more peaceful ways despite the seemingly insurmountable differences even among the best-intentioned people. It is a brilliant tour de force, offering conceptualizations and categorizations that defy much of the present-day ways in which the problem of pluralism is understood. Informationen zum Autor AS: Professor of Religion, Boston University; RW: Professor of Anthropology, Boston University Klappentext The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is, the challenge of pluralism in our world. They show that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience may attune more closely with contemporary problems of living with difference. Zusammenfassung The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is, the challenge of pluralism in our world. They show that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience may attune more closely with contemporary problems of living with difference.

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• Authors: Adam B. Seligman, Adam B. (Professor of Religion Seligman, Adam B. Weller Seligman, Seligman Adam B., Robert P. Weller, Weller Robert P.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2012
• EAN: 9780199915262
• ISBN: 978-0-19-991526-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Spirituality & religious experience, Judaism, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Interfaith relations, Spirituality and religious experience, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals