The Cambridge companion to American Judaism

This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, socio...

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Otros Autores: Kaplan, Dana Evan 1960- (Editor )
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Cambridge, UK [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
En:Año: 2005
Críticas:Variable, Vital, and Frequently Chaotic: American Jewry (2010) (Mintz, Adam)
Colección / Revista:Cambridge companions to religion
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
Cambridge Collections Online
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B USA / Judaísmo
Otras palabras clave:B Judaism ; United States
B Colección de artículos
B Judaism (United States)
Acceso en línea: Índice
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Parallel Edition:No electrónico
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Sumario:This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, sociology, and musicology, the book adopts an inclusive perspective on Jewish religious experience. Three initial chapters cover the development of Judaism in America from 1654, when Sephardic Jews first landed in New Amsterdam, until today. Subsequent chapters include cutting-edge scholarship and original ideas while remaining accessible at an introductory level. A secondary goal of this volume is to help its readers better understand the more abstract term of 'religion' in a Jewish context. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism will be of interest not only to scholars but also to all readers interested in social and intellectual trends in the modern world.
Preservation to innovation : Judaism in America, 1654-1880 / Eli Faber -- American Judaism, 1880-1945 / Lloyd P. Gartner -- Trends in American Judaism from 1945 to the present / Dana Evan Kaplan -- Jewish religious denominations / Lawrence Grossman -- Patterns of American Jewish religious behavior / Chaim Waxman -- Thinking Judaism through : Jewish theology in America / Byron L. Sherwin -- The essence of American Judaism / Charles Liebman -- Contemporary Jewish education / Isa Aron, Michael Zeldin, and Sara S. Lee -- The place of Judaism in American Jewish identity / Debra Renee Kaufman -- The Holocaust in Jewish American life / Lynn Rapaport -- Long distance nationalism : American Jews, Zionism, and Israel / Steven T. Rosenthal -- Life cycle rituals : rites of passage in American Judaism / Rela Mintz Geffen -- Choosing lives : evolving gender roles in American Jewish families / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- The body and sexuality in American Jewish culture / David Biale -- The American Jewish urban experience / Nathan Glazer -- "Sacred survival" revisited : American Jewish civil religion in the new millennium / Jonathan Woocher -- Judaism and democracy in America / Alan Mittleman -- The economics of American Judaism / Carmel U. Chiswick -- American Judaism and interfaith dialogue / Yaakov Ariel -- American midrash : urban Jewish writing & the reclaiming of Judaism / Murray Baumgarten -- Recent trends in new American Jewish music / Mark Kligman -- The visual arts in the American Jewish experience / Matthew Baigell -- American Judaism in the twenty-first century / Bruce Phillips
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ISBN:0521529514
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521822041