Secularism in Question Jews and Judaism in Modern Times 1st Edition by Ari Joskowicz, Ethan Katz ISBN 0812291514 9780812291513

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ISBN 10: 0812291514

ISBN 13: 9780812291513 

Author:  Ari Joskowicz, Ethan Katz 

For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they were witnessing a steady, ongoing movement toward secularization. Toward the end of the century, however, as scholars and pundits began to speak of the global resurgence of religion, the normalization of secularism could no longer be considered inevitable. Recent decades have seen the strengthening of Orthodox movements in the United States and in Israel; religious Zionism has grown and radically changed since the 1960s, and new and vibrant nondenominational Jewish movements have emerged. Secularism in Question examines the ways these contemporary revivals of religion prompt a reconsideration of many issues concerning Jews and Judaism from the early modern era to the present. Bringing together scholars of history, religion, philosophy, and literature, this volume illustrates how the categories of “religious” and “secular” have frequently proven far more permeable than fixed. The contributors challenge the problematic assumptions about the development of secularism that emerge from Protestant European and American perspectives and demonstrate that global Jewish experiences necessitate a reappraisal of conventional narratives of secularism. Ultimately, Secularism in Question calls for rethinking the very terms that animate many of the most contentious debates in contemporary Jewish life and far beyond.

Table of contents:

1. Rethinking Jews and secularism

2. “Our Rabbi Baruch” : Spinoza and radical Jewish enlightenment

3. Reading Mendelssohn in late Ottoman Palestine : an Islamic theory of Jewish secularism

4. Tradition and the hidden: Hannah Arendt’s secularization of Jewish mysticism

5. Messianism without messiah : messianism, religion, and secularization in modern Jewish thought

6. In the name of the devil : reading Walter Benjamin’s “Agesilaus Santander”

7. The secular and its dissonances in modern Jewish literature

8. Civil society, secularization, and modernity among Jews in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe

9. Secular French nationhood and its discontents : Jews as Muslims and religion as race in occupied France

10. Galician Haskalah and the discourse of Schwärmerei

11. Secularism and neo-orthodoxy : conflicting strategies in Modern Orthodox fiction

12. Secularism and nationalism : the modern halakhic discourse on the identity and boundaries of the Jewish community

13. Between supersessionism and atavism : toward a neo-secular view of religion

14. Secularism, the Christian ambivalence toward the Jews, and the notion of exile

15. “Eleven calendars” : beyond secular time

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