The limits of pluralism : neo-absolutisms and relativism : Erasmus Ascension symposium, 11-15 May, 1994, Amsterdam-Oosterbeek.

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Meeting name:Limits of Pluralism : Neo-absolutisms and Relativism (1994 : Amsterdam)
Imprint:Amsterdam : Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, [1995]
Description:183 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7886253
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Other authors / contributors:Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.
Notes:Introduction dated August 1995.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • In God's cause / Emmanuel Sivan
  • Political Islam as an expression of fundamentalism : between modernity and neo-absolutism / Bassam Tibi
  • The boomerang effect : reflections on fundamentalisms and fundamentalism-watchers / R. Scott Appleby
  • Jewish fundamentalism in Israel : implications for the Mideast conflict / Peter Demant
  • Christian fundamentalists : post-modern critics of the modern world / Nancy T. Ammerman
  • Radical Hinduism and modernity / Peter van der Veer
  • Relections on nationalism and ethnicity / Shlomo Avineri
  • Ethno-national problems in Central and Eastern Europe put in a historical perspective / Miroslav Hroch
  • Liberalism and nationalism, friends and enemies / John A. Hall
  • Ancient ethnic hatreds and recent Balkan conflicts : the role of nationalism in Southeastern Europe / Ivo Banac
  • The return of the great powers / Misha Glenny
  • Expiation through subjectivism / Ernest Gellner
  • Reason, religion, and Professor Gellner / Clifford Geertz
  • Feminism and postmodernism : anti-relativism and nomadic subjectivity / Rosi Braidotti.