Secularism in Question : : Jews and Judaism in Modern Times / / ed. by Ethan B. Katz, Ari Joskowicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Horin, Michal,; Edrei, Arye,; Gribetz, Jonathan Marc,; Joskowicz, Ari,; Katz, Ethan B.,; Lezzi, Eva,; Liska, Vivian,; Manekin, Rachel,; Myers, David N.,; Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon,; Schatz, Andrea,; Schulte, Christoph,; Schwartz, Daniel B.,; Shahar, Galili,; Ury, Scott,
• HerausgeberIn: Joskowicz, Ari,; Katz, Ethan B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they were witnessing a steady, ongoing movement toward secularization. Toward the end of the century, however, as scholars and pundits began to speak of the global resurgence of religion, the normalization of secularism could no longer be considered inevitable. Recent decades have seen the strengthening of Orthodox movements in the United States and in Israel; religious Zionism has grown and radically changed since the 1960s, and new and vibrant nondenominational Jewish movements have emerged.Secularism in Question examines the ways these contemporary revivals of religion prompt a reconsideration of many issues concerning Jews and Judaism from the early modern era to the present. Bringing together scholars of history, religion, philosophy, and literature, this volume illustrates how the categories of "religious" and "secular" have frequently proven far more permeable than fixed. The contributors challenge the problematic assumptions about the development of secularism that emerge from Protestant European and American perspectives and demonstrate that global Jewish experiences necessitate a reappraisal of conventional narratives of secularism. Ultimately, Secularism in Question calls for rethinking the very terms that animate many of the most contentious debates in contemporary Jewish life and far beyond.Contributors: Michal Ben-Horin, Aryeh Edrei, Jonathan Mark Gribetz, Ari Joskowicz, Ethan B. Katz, Eva Lezzi, Vivian Liska, Rachel Manekin, David Myers, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Andrea Schatz, Christophe Schulte, Daniel B. Schwartz, Galili Shahar, Scott Ury.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Rethinking Jews and Secularism -- PART I. NARRATIONS -- 1. ''Our Rabbi Baruch'': Spinoza and Radical Jewish Enlightenment -- Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism -- Tradition and the Hidden: Hannah Arendt's Secularization of Jewish Mysticism -- PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS -- Messianism Without Messiah: Messianism, Religion, and Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought -- In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin's ''Agesilaus Santander'' -- The Secular and Its Dissonances in Modern Jewish Literature -- Civil Society, Secularization, and Modernity Among Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe -- Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslims and Religion as Race in Occupied France -- PART III. ADAPTATIONS -- Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwa¨rmerei -- Secularism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Conflicting Strategies in Modern Orthodox Fiction -- Secularism and Nationalism: The Modern Halakhic Discourse on the Identity and Boundaries of the Jewish Community -- Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neo-Secular View of Religion -- Secularism, the Christian Ambivalence Toward the Jews, and the Notion of Exile -- ''Eleven Calendars'': Beyond Secular Time -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments