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Adam Seligman

Visiting Professor of Sociology (Boston University)

Biographical Note

Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. Trained as a sociologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has lived and taught at universities in this country, in Israel and in Hungary where he was a Fulbright Fellow from 1990-1992. He lived close to twenty years in Israel where he was a member of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in the early 1970’s. His books include The Idea of Civil Society (Free Press, 1992), Inner-worldly Individualism (Transaction Press, 1994), The Problem of Trust (Princeton University Press, 1997), Modernity’s Wager: Authority, The Self and Transcendence (Princeton University Press, 2000, with Mark Lichbach Market and Community(Penn State University Press, 2000) with Mark Lichbach, Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Toleration and Tradition (Notre Dame University Press, 2004), and Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity with R.Weller, M.Puett and B.Simon (Oxford University Press, 2008). For the past nine years he has directed the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life which meets every year in a different country and explores new pedagogic approaches to the problems of coexistence in religiously and ethnically plural societies." See "In a Land Divided, Lessons in Living Together" about this summer's experience in Nicosia, Cyprus (New York Times article by Nick Thorpe, August 15, 2010)

06/27/2011

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