Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Erasmus Institute Books)
Language: English
Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2004
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Many critical political issues revolve around religion and tolerance. The predominant approach espouses liberal humanistic virtue. These doctrines fail to resonate in communities with traditional religious definitions of self and society. This text seeks to uncover sources of toleration and pluralism within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Series: Erasmus Institute Books. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340. . 2004. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Erasmus Institute Books)
- Author
- Seligman, Adam
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0268041075
- ISBN 13
- 9780268041076
Many of the critical political issues of our time―from the 1992–1995 Balkan Wars to the continuing crisis in the Middle East to the role of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe―revolve around issues of religion and tolerance. The predominant approach to these concerns is to espouse the doctrines of liberal humanistic virtue. These doctrines, however, fail to resonate in communities that maintain more traditional religious definitions of self and society.
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.
This important and timely book breathes new life into the search for peace and toleration in an increasingly fractured world.
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Adam B. Seligman is professor of religion at Boston University.
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