Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity Rethinking Pluralism

"This is a work of great substance and commitment, drawing atypically from a broad range of human experience and intellect. It is a living seminar on the possibilities of human understanding and the potential for living together in more peaceful ways despite the seemingly insurmountable differences even among the best-intentioned people. It is a brilliant tour de force, offering conceptualizations and categorizations that defy much of the present-day ways in which the problem of pluralism is understood."--Jonathan Imber, Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College