Another modernity : Elia Benamozegh's Jewish universalism / Clémence Boulouque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulouque, Clémence, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benamozegh, Elia, 1823-1900.

Benamozegh, Elia.

Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Universalism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Another Modernity' is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure, who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for interreligious engagement, came to influence a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Moroccan World of a Livornese Jew

2. An Italian Jewish Patriot in the Risorgimento

3. The Banned Author and the Oriental Publisher

4. Expanding His Readership: Benamozegh’s Turn to French

5. The Afterlives of a Manuscript

6. Situating Benamozegh in the Debate on Jewish Universalism

7. Normativity and Inclusivity in Modernity: The Role and Limits of the Noahide Laws

8. Cosmopolitanism and Universalism: The Political Value of Judaism in an Age of Nations

9. Universalism in Particularism: Benamozegh’s Legacies, between Levinas and Religious Zionism

10. Kabbalah: Reason and the Power of Myth

11. Beyond Dualism: Kabbalah and the Coincidence of Opposites

12. Kabbalah as Politics

13. Religious Enmity and Tolerance Reconsidered

14. “The Iron Crucible” and Loci of Religious Contact

15. Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions

16. Modes of Interreligious Engagement: From Theory to Social Practices

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 26, 2020).

ISBN:

9781503613119

1503613119

OCLC:

1157209899