How Judaism Became a Religion : : An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought / / Leora Batnitzky.

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• VerfasserIn: Batnitzky, Leora,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the stor...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Judaism as Religion
• Chapter 1. Modern Judaism and the Invention of Jewish Religion
• Chapter 2. Religion as History: Religious Reform and the Invention of Modern Orthodoxy
• Chapter 3. Religion as Reason and the Separation of Religion from Politics
• Chapter 4. Religion as Experience: The German Jewish Renaissance
• Chapter 5. Jewish Religion after the Holocaust
• Part II. Detaching Judaism from Religion
• Chapter 6. The Irrelevance of Religion and the Emergence of the Jewish Individual
• Chapter 7. The Transformation of Tradition and the Invention of Jewish Culture
• Chapter 8. The Rejection of Jewish Religion and the Birth of Jewish Nationalism
• Chapter 9. Jewish Religion in the United States
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index