ISBN:
9780231137294
,
9780231137287
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXIV, 446 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
Paperb. ed.
Year of publication:
2011
DDC:
296/.0973
Keywords:
Jews United States
;
Identity
;
Jews United States
;
Social conditions
;
Judaism 21st century
;
Judaism United States
;
History
;
20th century
;
Spiritual life Judaism
;
USA
;
Judentum
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the individual spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living in all corners of the United States. A pulpit rabbi and American Jew, Kaplan follows this religious individualism from its postwar suburban roots to the hippie revolution of the 1960s and the multiple postmodern identities of today. From Hebrew tattooing to Jewish Buddhist meditation, his book describes the remaking of historical tradition in ways that channel multiple ethnic and national identities.
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