Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition

by Adam B. Seligman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268041075
• ISBN13: 9780268041076
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"