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The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan / Mel Scult.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM755.K289 S395 2013
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LIBRA BM755.K289 S395 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scult, Mel.
- Series:
- Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
- The modern Jewish experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983.
- Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem.
- Reconstructionist Judaism.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 336 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza
- Self-reliance: Kaplan and Emerson
- Nationalism and righteousness: Ahad ha-Am and Matthew Arnold
- Universalism and pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey
- Kaplan and peoplehood: Judaism as a civilization and Zionism
- Kaplan and his God: an ambivalent relationship
- Kaplan's theology: beyond supernaturalism
- Salvation: the goal of religion
- Salvation embodied: the vehicle of mitzvot
- Mordecai the pious: Kaplan and Heschel
- The law: halakhah and ethics
- Kaplan and the problem of evil: cutting the gordian knot
- Appendix: "Thirteen wants" of Mordecai Kaplan reconstructed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253010759
- 0253010756
- 9780253010889
- 0253010888
- OCLC:
- 816563433
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