How Judaism became a religion
Subtitle: an introduction to modern Jewish thought
By: Leora Batnitzky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780691130729
Subjects: Philosophy; Judaism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pt. I: Judaism as a religion. Chapt. 1: Modern Judaism and the invention of Jewish religion; title: Chapt. 2: Religion as history: religious reform and the invention of modern Orthodoxy; title: Chapt. 3: Religion as reason and the separation of religion from politics; title: Chapt. 4: Religion as experience: the German-Jewish Renaissance; title: Chapt. 5: Jewish religion after the Holocaust; title: Pt. II. : Detaching Judaism from religion. Chapt. 6: The irrelevance of religion and the emergence of the Jewish individual; title: Chapt. 7: The transformation of tradition and the invention of Jewish culture; title: Chapt. 8: The rejection of Jewish religion and the birth of Jewish nationalism; title: Chapt. 9: Jewish religion in the United States; title: Conclusion.