Adam Seligman w/ Anat Biletzki – “Personal Reflections on the Israeli Left”

From BU’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA)'s 2025 Conference on the Jewish Left. FOLLOW CURA: Instagram:   / cura_bostonuniversity   Facebook:   / bostonuniversitycura   LinkedIn:   / bucura   Twitter: https://x.com/curareligion?lang=en Youtube: @instituteonculturereligion3387 Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/curabu.bsky.... 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.