Secularism in Question examines how twentieth-century revivals of religion prompt a reconsideration of many issues concerning Jews and Judaism in the modern era. Scholars of Jewish history, religion, philosophy, and literature illustrate how the categories of "religious" and "secular" have frequently proven far more permeable than fixed.
Secularism in Question examines how twentieth-century revivals of religion prompt a reconsideration of many issues concerning Jews and Judaism in the modern era. Scholars of Jewish history, religion, philosophy, and literature illustrate how the categories of "religious" and "secular" have frequently proven far more permeable than fixed.
Ari Joskowicz teaches Jewish studies and European studies at Vanderbilt University. He is author of The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France. Ethan B. Katz teaches history at the University of Cincinnati.
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Introduction. Rethinking Jews and Secularism —Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz PART I. NARRATIONS Chapter 1. "Our Rabbi Baruch": Spinoza and Radical Jewish Enlightenment —Daniel B. Schwartz Chapter 2. Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism —Jonathan Marc Gribetz Chapter 3. Tradition and the Hidden: Hannah Arendt's Secularization of Jewish Mysticism —Vivian Liska PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 4. Messianism Without Messiah: Messianism, Religion, and Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought —Christoph Schulte Chapter 5. In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin's "Agesilaus Santander" —Galili Shahar Chapter 6. The Secular and Its Dissonances in Modern Jewish Literature —Michal Ben-Horin Chapter 7. Civil Society, Secularization, and Modernity Among Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe —Scott Ury Chapter 8. Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslims and Religion as Race in Occupied France —Ethan Katz PART III. ADAPTATIONS Chapter 9. Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwärmerei —Rachel Manekin Chapter 10. Secularism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Conflicting Strategies in Modern Orthodox Fiction —Eva Lezzi Chapter 11. Secularism and Nationalism: The Modern Halakhic Discourse on the Identity and Boundaries of the Jewish Community —Arye Edrei PART IV. NEW CONCEPTIONS: A FORUM Chapter 12. Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neosecular View of Religion —David N. Myers Chapter 13. Secularism, the Christian Ambivalence Toward the Jews, and the Notion of Exile —Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin Chapter 14. "Eleven Calendars": Beyond Secular Time —Andrea Schatz Notes List of Contributors Index
Introduction. Rethinking Jews and Secularism —Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz PART I. NARRATIONS Chapter 1. "Our Rabbi Baruch": Spinoza and Radical Jewish Enlightenment —Daniel B. Schwartz Chapter 2. Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism —Jonathan Marc Gribetz Chapter 3. Tradition and the Hidden: Hannah Arendt's Secularization of Jewish Mysticism —Vivian Liska PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 4. Messianism Without Messiah: Messianism, Religion, and Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought —Christoph Schulte Chapter 5. In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin's "Agesilaus Santander" —Galili Shahar Chapter 6. The Secular and Its Dissonances in Modern Jewish Literature —Michal Ben-Horin Chapter 7. Civil Society, Secularization, and Modernity Among Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe —Scott Ury Chapter 8. Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslims and Religion as Race in Occupied France —Ethan Katz PART III. ADAPTATIONS Chapter 9. Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwärmerei —Rachel Manekin Chapter 10. Secularism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Conflicting Strategies in Modern Orthodox Fiction —Eva Lezzi Chapter 11. Secularism and Nationalism: The Modern Halakhic Discourse on the Identity and Boundaries of the Jewish Community —Arye Edrei PART IV. NEW CONCEPTIONS: A FORUM Chapter 12. Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neosecular View of Religion —David N. Myers Chapter 13. Secularism, the Christian Ambivalence Toward the Jews, and the Notion of Exile —Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin Chapter 14. "Eleven Calendars": Beyond Secular Time —Andrea Schatz Notes List of Contributors Index
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