A modern heretic and a traditional community : Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism /
Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book examines the intellectual influences that moved Kaplan from Orthodoxy and analyzes the combination of personal, strategic, and career...
| Основен автор: | Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949- |
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| Други автори: | Schacter, Jacob J. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
℗♭1997.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=79592 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Modern heretic and a traditional community. |
| Резюме: |
Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book examines the intellectual influences that moved Kaplan from Orthodoxy and analyzes the combination of personal, strategic, and career reasons that kept Kaplan close to Orthodox Jews, posing a question crucial to the understanding of any religion: Can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs' |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-210) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0231504497 9780231504492 |