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Informationen zum Autor 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 Mahmut¿ehaji¿, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch, and Claire Wolfteich. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
