How Things Count as the Same by Adam B Seligman

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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 foster different group dynamics and different benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies.

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How Things Count as the Same by Adam B Seligman

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 foster different group dynamics and different benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies.
..absorbing book... * Janet M. Powers, Religion *
Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the co-author of Rethinking Pluralism (2012) and Ritual and Its Consequences (2008). Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. He is the co-author of Rethinking Pluralism (2012) and Ritual and Its Consequences (2008).
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ISBN 13 9780190888718
ISBN 10 0190888717
Title How Things Count as the Same
Author Adam B Seligman
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 2018-12-20
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.