ISBN:
9780300255997
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (256 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2020
Keywords:
HISTORY / Jewish
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: A Twenty- First-Century Dilemma -- PART I THE CLASH OF IDENTITIES THAT RUPTURED ISRAELI JUDAISM -- Introduction -- 1 The Great Revolt -- 2 The New Orthodoxy -- PART II ALTERNATIVE SECULARISM -- Introduction -- 3 Cultural Secularism -- 4 Mystical Secularism -- 5 Halakhic Secularism -- 6 Is Secular Judaism Still Judaism? -- PART III ALTERNATIVE RELIGIOSITY -- Introduction -- 7 Messianic Religious Zionism -- 8 Non- Diasporic Judaism -- 9 Sephardic Rabbis and Traditionalist Judaism -- PART IV TOWARD A REVITALIZED JUDAISM -- Introduction -- 10 Parallel Worlds, Parallel Divisions -- 11 Self- Confidence and Fears About Identity -- 12 The Israeli Middle Ground -- Afterword: A Digital- Free Sabbath -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Abstract:
A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path to bridging the divide Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now, a new middle ground is emerging between religious and secular Jews who want to engage with their heritage-without being restricted by it or losing it completely. In this incisive book, acclaimed author Micah Goodman explores Israeli Judaism and the conflict between religion and secularism, one of the major causes of political polarization throughout the world. Revisiting traditional religious sources and seminal works of secularism, he reveals that each contains an openness to learn from the other's messages. Goodman challenges both orthodoxies, proposing a new approach to bridge the divide between religion and secularism and pave a path toward healing a society torn asunder by extremism
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300255997
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