How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought Batnitzky LeoraPaperback
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought Batnitzky LeoraPaperback A new approach to understanding Jewish thought since the eighteenth centuryIs Judaism a religion, a…
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How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought Batnitzky LeoraPaperback
A new approach to understanding Jewish thought since the eighteenth centuryIs Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea.Ever since the Enlightenment, Jewish thinkers have debated whether and how Judaism--largely a religion of practice and public adherence to law--can fit into a modern, Protestant conception of religion as an individual and private matter of belief or faith. In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century.
Batnitzky makes the novel argument that it is this clash between the modern category of religion and