Modern Varieties of Judaism
Subtitle: Lectures on the History of Religions
Series: American Council of Learned Societies. Lectures on the history of religions, new series;no.8
Publisher: Columbia U.P
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 217
Description: From the Preface...

This book is an expansion of six lectures prepared and delivered under the auspices of the Committee on the History of Religions of the American Council of Learned Societies. They were presented, either as a whole or in part, during the academic year 1964-65, at Northwestern University, Princeton University, Harvard Divinity School and Center for the Study of World Religions, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Union Theological Seminary, Rice University, the Perkins Theological Seminary of Southern Methodist University, San Diego State College, Claremont Graduate School, the Southern California School of Theology, and Duke University.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Emancipation and the Birth of Modern Judaism; title: 2. The Initial Response: Reform Judaism in Europe and America; title: 3. Reformulating Jewish Orthodoxy: Samson Raphael Hirsch and His Successors; title: 4. The Complex Phenomenon of Conservative Judaism; title: 5. Zionism: From Religious Nationalism to National Religion; title: 6. Was Emancipation a Mistake? Mid-Twentieth-Century Appraisals; title: Notes; title: Index