Professor of Religion; Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture
Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs there. He has lived and taught at universities in this country, in Israel and in Hungary where he was Fulbright Fellow. He lived close to twenty years in Israel where he was a member of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in the early 1970’s. His many books include The Idea of Civil Society (1992), Inner-worldly Individualism (1994), The Problem of Trust (1997), Modernity’s Wager: Authority, the Self and Transcendence (2000) , with Mark Lichbach Market and Community (2000) Modest Claims, Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (2004), with Weller, Puet and Simon, Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (2008) and most recently, with Weller Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience and Ambiguity (2012). His Über die Herausforderung der Verschiedenheit und die neue Wertereligion (with L. Woodhead), and Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis (with M. Schnitter) are forthcoming this 2024 year. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2020 he was recipient of the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the University of Tubingen. He is Founding Director of CEDAR – Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion (www.CEDARnetwork.org) which leads seminars every year on contested aspects of religion and the public square in different parts of the world and has established permanent programs in Japan, Indonesia, Uganda and Kenya. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Books
How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
By: Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller
December 3, 2018
Oxford University Press
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Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World (California Series in Public Anthropology)
By Adam Seligman, , and
January 12, 2016
University of California Press
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Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism
Edited by Adam Seligman
October 1, 2014
Oxford University Press
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Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
By Adam Seligman and Robert Weller
2012
Oxford University Press
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The Burden of Tolerance: Religious Traditions and the Challenge of Pluralism
by Adam Seligman
2012
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad
Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
by Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, Michael Puett, and Bennett Simon
2008
Oxford University Press
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Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Toleration and Tradition
by Adam Seligman
2004
Notre Dame University Press
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Modernity’s Wager: Authority, the Self and Transcendence
by Adam Seligman
2000
Princeton University Press
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Market and Community: The Bases of Social Order,Revolution and Relegitimation
by Adam Seligman and Mark Lichbach
2000
Penn State University Press
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The Problem of Trust
by Adam Seligman
1997
Princeton University Press
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Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and its Institutionalization
by Adam Seligman
1994
Transaction Press
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The Idea of Civil Society
by Adam Seligman
1992
The Free Press
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Courses
- CAS RN 249/JS 379 Islamophobia and Antisemitism
- CAS RN 250 Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
- CAS RN 336/636 The Heretical Jew
- CAS RN 465/795 Religion & Society
- CAS RN 466/766 Religion and the Problem of Tolerance
- CAS RN 795 Humanities Approaches to Religion
- CAS RN 796 Social Science Approaches to Religion