Jewish secularity [ the search for roots and the challenges of relevant meaning

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gordis, David M. (Author), Heller, Zachary I. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America , c2012
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Online Access:IG Publishing
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Secular forms of Judaism
  • 2. Demography and dimensions of secularity among American Jews
  • 3. Secularism in the contemporary Jewish community
  • 4. Let us speak of stories
  • 5. A personal history of Jewish reading
  • 6. God's language and the making of secular Jewish culture
  • 7. Sources of secularism
  • 8. Secular Jewish musical expression-is nothing sacred?
  • 9. The secularization of Jewish cultural memory : epistemological and hermeneutical reflections
  • 10. Secular Jewishness in Israel and the diaspora
  • 11. Accepting secular Jewishness and embracing all Jews