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The problem of trust in social relationships was central to the emergence of the modern form of civil society and much discussed by social and political philosophers of the early modern period. Over the past few years, in response to the profound changes associated with postmodernity, trust has returned to the attention of political scientists, sociologists, economists, and public policy analysts. In this sequel to his widely admired book, The Idea of Civil Society, Adam Seligman analyzes trust as a fundamental issue of our present social relationships. Setting his discussion in historical and intellectual context, Seligman asks whether trust--which many contemporary critics, from Robert Putnam through Francis Fukuyama, identify as essential in creating a cohesive society--can continue to serve this vital role.Seligman traverses a wide range of examples, from the minutiae of everyday manners to central problems of political and economic life, showing throughout how civility and trust are being displaced in contemporary life by new "external' system constraints inimical to the development of trust. Disturbingly, Seligman shows that trust is losing its unifying power precisely because the individual, long assumed to be the ultimate repository of rights and values, is being reduced to a sum of group identities and an abstract matrix of rules. The irony for Seligman is that, in becoming postmodern, we seem to be moving backward to a premodern condition in which group sanctions rather than trust are the basis of group life.

Political sociology --- Political systems --- Social psychology --- #SBIB:35H501 --- 316.47.052 --- Bestuur en samenleving: netwerken, inspraak, participatie, interactief beleid --- Vertrouwen in sociale relaties --- 316.47.052 Vertrouwen in sociale relaties --- Social role --- Role, Social --- Social interaction. --- Trust. --- Social role. --- Social interaction --- Trust --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Trust (Psychology) --- Social status --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Agape. --- Appadurai, Arjun, "ed. --- Arendt, Hannah. --- Axial chasm. --- Banfield, Edward. --- Benhabib, Seyla. --- Bernstein, Basil. --- Boden, Deirdre. --- Bynum, Caroline. --- Calvinism. --- Cambridge Platonists. --- Catholicism. --- Christianity. --- Constant, Benjamin. --- Diderot, Denis, "ed. --- Douglas, Mary. --- Durkheim, Emile. --- Elias, Norbert. --- Frankfurt, Harry. --- Ghana, Frafas people of. --- Grief, Avner. --- Harrison, Bernard, "ed. --- Herman, Gabriel. --- Kahneman, Daniel. --- Lasch, Christopher. --- Macfarlane, Alan. --- Maza, Sarah. --- Merton, Robert. --- Otto, Rudolf. --- Protestantism. --- Puritanism. --- asceticism. --- associational life. --- baptism, private. --- capitalism. --- citizenship. --- civility. --- communitarianism. --- confidence. --- contract law. --- credit, symbolic. --- divorce. --- expectation, trust as. --- externality. --- familiarity. --- friendship. --- game theory. --- honor. --- incivisme. --- marriage. --- networks, of trust. --- postmodernity. --- Rol social. --- Interacción social. --- Interaction sociale --- Role (Sociology) --- Confiance --- Rôle social

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The early Christian and medieval practice of spiritual marriage, in which husband and wife mutually and voluntarily relinquish sexual activity for reasons of piety, plays an important role in the development of the institution of marriage and in the understanding of female religiosity. Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Europe --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- Church history --- Abelard. --- Adalbert (deacon of Bamberg). --- Aelred of Rievaulx. --- Alan of Lille. --- Alphonse of Pecha. --- Amon of Nitria. --- Apostolic Canons. --- Arnold of Villanova. --- Barlow, Frank. --- Bede the Venerable. --- Beguines. --- Bernard of Clairvaux. --- Bolton, Brenda. --- Burrus, Virginia. --- Bynum, Caroline Walker. --- Caesarius of Heisterbach. --- Catherine of Bologna. --- Charlemagne (emperor). --- Chiarito del Voglia. --- Chrysostom, John. --- Clement of Alexandria. --- Collectio Seguntina. --- Conrad of Piacenza. --- Daniélou, Jean. --- Desert Fathers. --- Domitilla (martyr). --- Ebernand von Erfurt. --- Eddius Stephanus. --- Elizabeth of Hungary. --- Euchites. --- Fliche, Augustin. --- Flodoard of Rheims. --- Fortunatus, Venantius. --- Gangulf (martyr). --- Geneviève of Brabant. --- Gentile of Ravenna. --- Gilbert of Sempringham. --- Gnosticism. --- Hali Medenhad. --- Handlyng Synne. --- Historia Compostellana. --- Ida of Bologne. --- Isidore of Seville. --- Jacobilli, Luigi. --- James Oldo. --- John the Baptist. --- Kieckhefer, Richar. --- Landulf the Senior. --- Lawrence (martyr). --- Lyndwood, William. --- anticlericalism. --- courtly love.