How Judaism became a religion : an introduction to modern Jewish thought / Leora Batnitzky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Batnitzky, Leora, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Philosophy.

Judaism.

History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction

Pt. I: Judaism as a religion. Chapt. 1: Modern Judaism and the invention of Jewish religion

Chapt. 2: Religion as history: religious reform and the invention of modern Orthodoxy

Chapt. 3: Religion as reason and the separation of religion from politics

Chapt. 4: Religion as experience: the German-Jewish Renaissance

Chapt. 5: Jewish religion after the Holocaust

Pt. II. : Detaching Judaism from religion. Chapt. 6: The irrelevance of religion and the emergence of the Jewish individual

Chapt. 7: The transformation of tradition and the invention of Jewish culture

Chapt. 8: The rejection of Jewish religion and the birth of Jewish nationalism

Chapt. 9: Jewish religion in the United States

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691130729

0691130728

OCLC:

710045189