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      How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

      Adam B. Seligman (Professor in the Department of Religion, Professor in the Department of Religion, Boston University),Robert P. Weller (Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Boston University)

      What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that different ways of constructing sameness…

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      How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

      Adam B. Seligman (Professor in the Department of Religion, Professor in the Department of Religion, Boston University),Robert P. Weller (Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Boston University)

      What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that different ways of constructing sameness…

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      Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity

      Adam B. Seligman (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, Boston University),Robert P. Weller (Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Boston University)

      The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is, the challenge of pluralism in our world…

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      Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity

      Adam B. Seligman (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, Boston University),Robert P. Weller (Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Boston University)

      The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is, the challenge of pluralism in our world…

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      Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

      Adam B. Seligman (Professor of Religion and Research Associate, CURA, BU, USA),Robert P. Weller (Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Reseach Associate, Institute for Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, BU, USA),Michael J (Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University, USA),Simon (Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute)

      This book argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity. Our contemporary age has, at great risk, downplayed the importance of ritual…

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      Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

      Adam B Seligman (Professor of Religion and Research Associte, CURA, BU, USA),Robert P Weller (Professor and CHair, Department of Anthropology, Research Associate, Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs, BU, USA),Michael J Puett (Prfessor of Chinese History, Harvard University, USA),Bennett Simon (Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Health Alliance, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute)

      This book argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity. Our contemporary age has, at great risk, downplayed the importance of ritual…

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