As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United State...

Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of mode...

Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambit...

The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and...

The problem of trust in social relationships was central to the emergence of the modern form of c...

Inner worldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New Eng...

The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive ...

Modest Claims, which features essays by Seligman and dialogues between scholars representing the ...

In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple qu...

In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple qu...

This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imper...

Modest Claims, which features essays by Seligman and dialogues between scholars representing the ...

Beyond Tribal Lines

In ihren Festreden anlässlich der Verleihung des Dr. Leopold Lucas-Preises des Jahres 2020 stelle...

Oaths, vows, promises, curses - all share family resemblances. They are performatives, carrying i...