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Theodicy of culture and the Jewish ethos : David Koigen's contribution to the sociology of religion / Martina Urban

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Signatur	VII.5. Urban 1987
Titel	Theodicy of culture and the Jewish ethos : David Koigen's contribution to the sociology of religion / Martina Urban
Person	Urban, Martina [Verfasser/in]
Veröffentlichung	Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2012
Umfang / Format	VI, 268 Seiten
Sprache	Englisch
Land	Deutschland
ISBN	978-3-11-024772-5
Gesamtwerk	(Studia Judaica ; 63)
Person über	Koigen, David
Schlagwörter	Religionssoziologie
Systematik	VII.5. Philosophie / Religion / Wissenschaft / Autoren
Inhalt	This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian-born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879Ń1933). Heir to Hermann Cohen̷s neo-Kantian interpretation of Judaism, he transforms the religion of reason into an ethical Intimitätsreligion. He draws upon a great variety of intellectual currents, among them, Max Scheler̷s philosophy of values, the historical sociology of Max Weber, the sociology of religion of Émile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch and Georg Simmel and American pragmatism. Influenced by his personal experience of marginality in German academia yet the same time unconstrained by the dictates of the German Jewish discourse, Koigen shapes these theoretical strands into an original argument which unfolds along two trajectories: theodicy of culture and ethos. Distinguished from ethics, ethos identifies the non-formal factors that foster a group̷s sense of collective identity as it adapts to continuous change. From a Jewish perspective, ethos is grounded in the biblical covenant as the paradigm of a social contract and corporate liability. Although the normative content of the covenantal ethos is subject to gradual secularization, its metaphysical and existential assumptions, Koigen argues, continue to inform Jewish self-understanding. The concept of ethos identifies the dialectic of tradition as it shapes Jewish religious consciousness, and, in turn, is shaped by the evolving cultural and axiological sensibilities. In consonance, Jewish identity cannot be reduced to ethnicity or a purely secular culture. Urban develops these fragmentary and inchoate theories into a sociology of religious knowledge and suggests to read Koigen not just as a Jewish sociologist but as the first sociologist of Judaism who proposes to overcome the dogmatic anti-metaphysical stance of European sociology.
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