The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe
By: Shmuel Feiner ; translated by Chaya Naor
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812242737
Work titles: Shorshe ha-ḥilun
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sins and doubts; title: Pleasures and liberation from religious supervision; title: Temptations of fashion and passion; title: The mystical sect: subversive Sabbateans; title: The rationalist sect: neo-Karaites and deists; title: Providence is tested: secularization on the rise in the 1760s; title: The supremacy of nature: deists on the margins; title: The emergence of the new world; title: Scandals and rebellions; title: Replacing Mosaic laws with laws of freedom; title: On the decline of Judaism: the last decade; title: Soon our faith will be lost: deists and believers.