Platforms and prayer books : theological and liturgical perspectives on Reform Judaism / edited by Dana Evan Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Dana Evan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reform Judaism.

Reform Judaism--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 317 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Contents:

1 The Reform Theological Enterprise at Work: Debating Theory and Practice in the American Religious "Marketplace" / Dana Evan Kaplan 1

Part I The Historical Context

2 Platforms and Prayer Books: From Exclusivity to Inclusivity in Reform Judaism / Herbert Bronstein 25

3 "America is Different!": Reform Judaism and American Pluralism / Jerome A. Chanes 41

4 Miss Daisy's Planet: The Strange World of Reform Judaism in the United States, 1870-1930 / Yaakov Ariel 49

5 The Theologian of the 1885 Pittsburgh Platform: Kaufmann Kohler's Vision of Progressive Judaism / Robert F. Southard 61

6 Renewing Reform Judaism: From Pittsburgh to Pittsburgh / Walter Jacob 81

7 Our Collective Identity as Reform Jews / Michael A. Meyer 93

Part II Liturgical Studies

8 The First Reform Prayer Book in America: The Liturgy of the Reformed Society of Israelites / Gary P. Zola 99

9 The Continuity of Change in Jewish Liturgy / Judith Z. Abrams 119

10 Meditation in Progressive Judaism / Eric L. Friedland 129

11 The Challenge of a Single Prayer Book for the Reform Movement / Peter S. Knobel 155

Part III Comparative Studies

12 Challenges to Using the Same Measures of Religiosity for Both Christians and Jews / Cory Michael Lebson 173

13 Two Trains Passing: Reconstructionism and Reform in Twentieth-Century American Judaism / Richard Hirsh 183

14 The Return of the Liminal to Reform Judaism / Seth Kunin 207

15 Better the Devil You Know ... and Other Contemporary Identity Narratives: Comparing Orthodox to Reform Judaism / Debra Renee Kaufman 221

Part IV Autonomy and Authority in Texts

16 Reform Judaism and Halacha: A Rapprochement? / Peter J. Haas 233

17 Building a Postmodern Reform Judaism: The Example of Eugene B. Borowitz / S. Daniel Breslauer 247

18 Oral Torah: Reading Jewish Texts Jewishly in Reform Judaism / Michael L. Satlow 261

19 Beyond Autonomy: The Texts and Our Lives / Leon A. Morris 271

20 American Reform: Observations from the Margin / Dow Marmur 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index.

ISBN:

0742515478

0742515486

OCLC:

47989957