Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity: Rethinking Pluralism

by Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller

How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience better attune to contemporary problems of living with difference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199915288
• ISBN13: 9780199915286
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"