Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Adam Seligman
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780268041069
ISBN 10: 0268041067
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 March 2004
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Seligman is an excellent scholar of profound depth and subtelty. He has gathered a number of interesting and important scholars to substantively discuss this critical and cutting edge topic.
Seligman is an excellent scholar of profound depth and subtelty. He has gathered a number of interesting and important scholars to substantively discuss this critical and cutting edge topic. Adam Seligman's Modest Claims contains both personal reflections as well as those of various 'dialogue partners' on the nature and need in our own day of religious toleration. --Christian Scholar's Review No one is better qualified to assemble such a group .... than Adam Seligmen, a tough-minded, profound scholar .... Seligman is a master at creating dialogue among visionary thinkers from a variety of cultures. [He] is a vital asset .... to the future of Jewish theology in a crowded world. --Sh'ma .. .the discussion flows brilliantly and one finally feels what it is like to be the proverbial fly on the wall in a room filled with great minds discussing great ideas. ...the reader will wish to continue the conversation with others. More one could not hope to ask from a text. --Multicultural Review Adam Seligman's Modest Claims contains both personal reflections as well as those of various 'dialogue partners' on the nature and need in our own day of religious toleration. --Christian Scholar's Review No one is better qualified to assemble such a group ... than Adam Seligmen, a tough-minded, profound scholar ... Seligman is a master at creating dialogue among visionary thinkers from a variety of cultures. [He] is a vital asset ... to the future of Jewish theology in a crowded world. --Sh'ma
Author Information
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 Mahmutćehajić, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch, and Claire Wolfteich.
