Adam B Seligman

Datos Biográficos

ID106194
NOMBREAdam B Seligman
NOMBRESAdam B
APELLIDOSeligman
FIRMASELIGMAN A B
AFILIACIONESProfessor of Religion and Research Associate, CURA, BU, USA
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS54
TOTAL DE CITAS221
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1988
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H6

  • Über die Herausforderung der Verschiedenheit und die neue Wertereligion

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.BOOKÜber die Herausforderung der…2024

    In ihren Festreden anlässlich der Verleihung des Dr. Leopold Lucas-Preises des Jahres 2020 stellen Adam B. Seligman und Linda Woodhead ihre unterschiedlichen Ansätze zum Zusammenhang von Religion und Gesellschaft prägnant und anschaulich dar. Seligman zeichnet aus sozialpsychologischer Perspektive nach, wie das Zugehörigkeitsgefühl zu einer Gruppe konstruiert und erlernt wird. Da gesellschaftlich geformte Kategorien die Selbst- und Weltwahrnehmun…

  • Symposium

    Open AccessR P Weller, Adam Seligman et al.ARTICLESociety2020

  • David Martin and the Sociology of Hope

    Open AccessAdam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.ARTICLESociety2020

  • Living with Difference

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.BOOKLiving with Difference2019

    Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating difference, however difficult and uncomfortable such accommodation may be. Drawing on fourteen years of theoretical insights and unique pedagogy, …

  • The Tragedy of Human Rights

    Open AccessAdam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.ARTICLESociety2019Citada por: 5

  • Mimesis, or “Society Is Imitation”

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERHow Things Count As the Same2018

    The heart of mimesis is a set of shared conventions rather than shared beliefs or shared memory. The repetition of mimesis gives it the character of something eternally present. This gives mimesis a much greater potential for openness than memory does. Unlike the past-continuous of memory, mimesis creates a kind of present-continuous. This chapter focuses on conflict around the reading of mimesis as memory or metaphor in different social contexts…

  • How Things Count As the Same

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.BOOKHow Things Count As the Same2018

  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

    Richard H Tawney, Adam Seligman et al.BOOKReligion and the Rise of Capitalism2017Citada por: 3

    In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages. In so doing he sheds light on why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. In so doing, the book offers an incisive anal…

  • Secularism and the Problem of Sincerity

    Open AccessAdam Seligman, Adam B SeligmanARTICLEInterdisciplinary Journal for…2015

    This paper seeks to reframe somewhat the way we conceptualize issues of religious identity in the contemporary world. Rather than the over-used concepts of the religious and the secular, the paper repositions our understanding in terms of ritual and sincerity as useful corrections to an overwhelming emphasis on belief and unbelief as the primary components of a religious and secular consciousness. These later are seen as rooting in a very particu…

  • Secularism and the Problem of Sincerity

    Open AccessAdam Seligman, Adam B SeligmanARTICLEInterdisciplinary Journal for…2015

    This papers eeks to reframes omewhatt he way we conceptualize issues of religious identityinthe contemporary world. Rather than the over-used conceptsofthe religious and the secular, the paperrepositions our understandinginterms of ritual and sincerity as useful corrections to an overwhelming emphasis on belief and unbelief as the primary components of areligiousand secular consciousness.These laterare seen as rooting in a very particular Christi…

  • Pluralism and Chinese Religions

    R P Weller, Adam Seligman et al.ARTICLEReview of Religion and Chinese…2014

    What counts as the same? Judgments of sameness and difference are fundamental to how social groups create and define themselves over time and across space. This is never a purely objective decision because no two things, people, or groups are ever identical. Group identity thus depends in part on interpretive decisions about similarity and difference. This paper examines three primary mechanisms for such interpretation: (1) memory, in which we id…

  • Ritual and the Rhythms of Ambiguity

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERRitual, experience, and ambiguity2012

    This chapter analyzes ritual’s ability simultaneously to create and to cross boundaries. It emphasizes in particular the way ritual defines social time through its rhythmic repetitions. Rituals define and bind things, people, times, and spaces. In doing so, they also forge links to what lies beyond their immediate fields. This chapter argues that rituals offer a way to live in a plural and hence also deeply ambiguous universe.

  • Rethinking Pluralism

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.BOOKRitual, experience, and ambiguity2012

  • Trust, Tolerance and the Challenge of Difference

    Adam Seligman, Adam B SeligmanARTICLEComparative Sociology2011Citada por: 2

    This essay explores the distinction between trust and confidence both analytically and in terms of the historical development of trust in modern societies. It compares a moral community of trust to communities of confidence and questions the ability of such communities to accept, abide by and live with difference. Finally, it presents the age-old idea of tolerance as a plausible if under-theoretized concept for how to live with ethnic and religio…

  • Ritual and sincerity

    Open AccessAdam Seligman, Adam B SeligmanARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2010Citada por: 6

    In this article, I develop an understanding of ritual and of sincerity as two ideal-typical modes of framing human action. I focus on the dangers of what I term the sincere model because it is so strongly counter-intuitive to the way we usually understand the world, the moral imperatives of action and the framing of our intersubjective universe. I will begin, however, with some brief remarks on ritual — not as a discrete realm of human endeavor, …

  • Ritual, the Self, and Sincerity

    Adam Seligman, Adam B SeligmanARTICLESocial research2009

    This paper critiques the modern cult of sincerity, suggesting that selves cannot be selves except in relationships which are constituted by ritualized behaviors fundamentally at odds with the demands of the self. Such ritual acts, are, I maintain, crucial to the existence of the relational self. Rituals create that subjunctive space, a shared "could be" where such selves can exist—in relation with other selves. Thus, rather than discuss religious…

  • Ritual and the Subjunctive

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERRitual and Its Consequences2008

    This chapter begins with a serious consideration of the understandings of ritual in traditions that take it as central, especially Judaism and Confucianism. It argues that such traditions understand the world as fundamentally fractured and discontinuous, with ritual allowing us to live in it by creating temporary order through the construction of a performative, subjunctive world. This is a world “as if”, with ritual understood in its indexical q…

  • Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Boundaries

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERRitual and Its Consequences2008

    This chapter turns to the capacities of the human mind that allow for the construction of the “as if” world of ritual, and begins to explore the ways such worlds allow us to deal with ambiguities and ambivalences. The material in this chapter, unlike most work on ritual, links individual psychology to ritual's broader social work. It looks at the development of “as if” worlds and ritual-like behaviors in children, from things like repeated bedtim…

  • Ritual, Play, and Boundaries

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERRitual and Its Consequences2008

    This chapter takes up the “as if” worlds of play. The first half discusses how the literature on play helps reveal important variations in the world of ritual by clarifying how ritual relates to notions of self and a social role. Special attention is paid to the work of Roger Caillois and Johan Huizinga on play. The analysis helps focus the idea of “ritual” more clearly by asking how it differs from play. The second half of the chapter continues …

  • Afterword

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERRitual and Its Consequences2008

  • Ritual and Sincerity

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERRitual and Its Consequences2008

    This chapter turns directly to the tension between sincerity and ritual. Sincerity often appears as a reaction against the perceived hypocrisy of ritual; these reactions in turn tend to ritualize over time. Sincerity offers the world “as is” instead of ritual's “as if”, a world of discursive meanings and unique selves instead of repeated acts and fragmented worlds. Modernity has brought an especially powerful turn toward sincerity. One crucial im…

  • Movements of Ritual and Sincerity

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.CHAPTERRitual and Its Consequences2008

    This chapter looks at different cultural examples of the tensions between ritual and sincerity over time. First, it discusses the interplay of law and love, Judaism and Christianity, and ritual and sincerity in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Second, it looks at the history of architectural ornament, which is ritual-like in its repetitions and rhythms and in its concern with boundaries and framing. Here the ritual/sincerity tension plays out ty…

  • Secularism, Liberalism and the Problem of Tolerance The Case of the USA

    Open AccessAdam B SeligmanARTICLETHEORIA An International Journal…2008

    The separation of church and state in the USA and the critical role of disestablishment in the political doctrines of that country is no indication of a secular polity. In fact, the separation of church and state as developed in 18th century American political thought was itself a religious doctrine and rested on the unique religious beliefs of certain Protestant Churches there. One consequence of this particular mode of accommodating religion ha…

  • Secularism, Liberalism and the Problem of Tolerance The Case of the USA

    Open AccessAdam B SeligmanARTICLETHEORIA An International Journal…2008

  • Ritual and Its Consequences

    Adam Seligman, Adam B Seligman et al.BOOKRitual and Its Consequences2008Citada por: 152Referencias: 35

    This book shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. The book, building on anthropological theories, draws examples of ritual attitudes from a variety of cultural settings, including original comparisons of Chinese and Jewish discussions of ritual and its importance. The book utilizes psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives on how ritual, like play, creates “as if” worlds, drawing upon the imaginative capacity of…