How Judaism became a religion : an introduction to modern Jewish thought / Leora Batnitzky.

Author: Batnitzky, Leora, 1966-

Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Descriptionx, 211 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction -- Pt. I: Judaism as a religion. Chapt. 1: Modern Judaism and the invention of Jewish religion -- Chapt. 2: Religion as history: religious reform and the invention of modern Orthodoxy -- Chapt. 3: Religion as reason and the separation of religion from politics -- Chapt. 4: Religion as experience: the German-Jewish Renaissance -- Chapt. 5: Jewish religion after the Holocaust -- Pt. II. : Detaching Judaism from religion. Chapt. 6: The irrelevance of religion and the emergence of the Jewish individual -- Chapt. 7: The transformation of tradition and the invention of Jewish culture -- Chapt. 8: The rejection of Jewish religion and the birth of Jewish nationalism -- Chapt. 9: Jewish religion in the United States -- Conclusion.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.

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