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Tribalism’s Troubles : Responding to Rowan Williams edited by Damien Freeman

Tribalism’s Troubles : Responding to Rowan Williams edited by Damien Freeman

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Tribalism’s Troubles : Responding to Rowan Williams edited by Damien Freeman

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Publication Date: September 2020 

ISBN 9781922449122

In this volume, twelve essayists, including Senator Amanda Stoker and the ABC’s Scott Stephens, respond to Overcoming Political Tribalism, an address delivered by Rowan Williams as the third PM Glynn Lecture on Religion, Law and Public Life. The collection offers a number of perspectives on Williams’s central claim that moving beyond political tribalism requires the building of a culture in which perspectives can interact and interrogate one another and themselves.

“beyond political tribalism lie a deeper literacy about our histories, a commitment to identifying the grammar of a common language, and the work of negotiating a shared future by looking for solutions that have a degree of durability and credibility even if they are no-one’s ideal.”
– Rowan Williams



Chapters Include:

Foreword by Margaret Beazley
Introduction by Damien Freeman 

Third PM Glynn Lecture on Religion, Law and Public Life
Overcoming political tribalism -- Rowan Williams

Responding to Rowan Williams
1. The reasonable poet and the clamour of the crowd -- Nigel Zimmermann 
2. Overcoming intellectual fragility -- Amanda Stoker 
3. Tribalism as anti-politics -- Ben Etherington 
4. Are shared languages enough? -- Anthony Ekpo 
5. Overcoming tribalist colonialism -- Cristina Lledo Gomez
6. Mutual recognition -- Kerry Pinkstone 
7. Orientalism, learning and tribalist violence -- Austin Wyatt 
8. Digital tribalism -- Ethan Westwood 
9. Defending the ‘I’ in tribe -- Sandra C. Jones 
10. Sustaining society -- Annette Pierdziwol 
11. Two concepts of legitimacy -- M. A. Casey 
12. Refusing the politics of despair -- Scott Stephens 
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