Adam B. Seligman explora la compleja interacción entre religión, cultura y sociedad, centrándose en cómo la fe se manifiesta en el ámbito público y da forma a la vida comunitaria. Su obra profundiza en cuestiones trascendentales de identidad y experiencia colectiva, a menudo basándose en su extensa trayectoria internacional. Seligman busca comprender cómo diversas comunidades navegan la diferencia y la controversia religiosa. Su enfoque es tanto analítico como práctico, procurando conectar las perspectivas académicas con los desafíos del mundo real de nuestro tiempo.
This book argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity. Our contemporary age has, at great risk, downplayed the importance of ritual. Drawing on examples from Chinese, Greek, Jewish, and contemporary culture, the book presents an innovative interdisciplinary account of how ritual works.
Evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. This book argues that 'the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis' in the forms of ethnic and racial politics. schovat popis