ISBN:
9781503613119
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 309 pages)
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Boulouque, Clémence, 1977 - Another modernity
Keywords:
Cabala History
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Mysticism Judaism
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Religions Relations
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Jewish philosophy
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Universalism
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Judaism and philosophy
;
Judaism
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RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism
;
Ben Amozeg, Eliyahu ben Avraham 1823-1900
Abstract:
Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure, who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for interreligious engagement, came to influence a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel. What Benamozegh proposed was unprecedented: that the Jewish tradition presented a solution to the religious crisis of modernity. According to Benamozegh, the defining features of Judaism were universalism, a capacity to foster interreligious engagement, and the political power and mythical allure of its theosophical tradition, Kabbalah—all of which made the Jewish tradition uniquely equipped to assuage the post-Enlightenment tensions between religion and reason. In this book, Clémence Boulouque presents a wide-ranging and nuanced investigation of Benamozegh's published and unpublished work and his continuing legacy, considering his impact on Christian-Jewish dialogue as well as on far-right Christians and right-wing religious Zionists
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Moroccan World of a Livornese Jew -- 2. An Italian Jewish Patriot in the Risorgimento -- 3. The Banned Author and the Oriental Publisher -- 4. Expanding His Readership: Benamozegh’s Turn to French -- 5. The Afterlives of a Manuscript -- 6. Situating Benamozegh in the Debate on Jewish Universalism -- 7. Normativity and Inclusivity in Modernity: The Role and Limits of the Noahide Laws -- 8. Cosmopolitanism and Universalism: The Political Value of Judaism in an Age of Nations -- 9. Universalism in Particularism: Benamozegh’s Legacies, between Levinas and Religious Zionism -- 10. Kabbalah: Reason and the Power of Myth -- 11. Beyond Dualism: Kabbalah and the Coincidence of Opposites -- 12. Kabbalah as Politics -- 13. Religious Enmity and Tolerance Reconsidered -- 14. “The Iron Crucible” and Loci of Religious Contact -- 15. Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions -- 16. Modes of Interreligious Engagement: From Theory to Social Practices -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781503613119
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