Adam Seligman

Dados Biográficos

ID77628
NOMEAdam Seligman
PRENOMESAdam
SOBRENOMESeligman
ASSINATURASELIGMAN A
AFILIAÇÕESBoston University
ORCID0000-0002-2073-8470
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS70
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES230
TOTAL COMO AUTOR70
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1988
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Personal reflections on the Israeli left (in the 1970's and 1980's)

    Open AccessAdam SeligmanARTICLECritical Research on Religion2025Referências: 1

  • 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…

  • Trust, experience and embodied knowledge or lessons from John Dewey on the dangers of abstraction

    Adam SeligmanARTICLEJournal of Trust Research2021Citada por: 2Referências: 8

    This paper explores the connection between trust and confidence on the one hand and different forms of knowledge (abstract and general viz. particular and concrete) on the other. While the distinction between trust and confidence was first made by Niklas Luhmann their connection to forms of knowledge and so attitudes towards difference is new. Making use of insights afforded to us by John Dewey, I argue here for the dependence of trust on an abil…

  • Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference

    Open AccessAdam SeligmanARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2021Citada por: 2Referências: 3

    This article seeks to challenge the regnant liberal orthodoxy that human rights are the highest and most important of our social virtues. It questions the individualist assumptions of such universal claims and draws attention to the need for belonging as something too often ignored if not denigrated in certain academic and liberal circles. Rather than a politics predicated solely on individual rights it argues for a politics of communal differenc…

  • 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…

  • Sociedad civil y bien común. Hacia una nueva articulación del mercado, el estado y la sociedad civil. Tomo I

    Open AccessPapa Francisco, Stefano Zamagni et al.BOOKSociedad civil y bien común.…2018

    La presente obra propone una sana relación entre las lógicas del mercado, del Estado y del don -cuya sede principal es la sociedad civil-, sin que cada una de esas dimensiones pierda su propia autonomía relativa. No solamente plantea dicha nueva articulación en el nivel teórico, sino que la muestra en nuevas praxis sociales, sobre todo en el nivel local y micro, pero con proyecciones posibles tanto nacionales como continentales y globales. Un cam…

  • 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, …

  • A reply to my critics

    Open AccessAdam SeligmanARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2009

  • 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 …

  • The idea of civil society

    Adam Seligman

    As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam Seligman identifies the neglect of the idea of "civil society" as a central concern common to both cultures today. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being revived to provide an answer to the question of how in…