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The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan /

Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a heretic, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scult, Mel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza
  • Self-reliance: Kaplan and Emerson
  • Nationalism and righteousness: Ahad ha-Am and Matthew Arnold
  • Universalism and pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey
  • Kaplan and peoplehood: Judaism as a civilization and Zionism
  • Kaplan and his God: an ambivalent relationship
  • Kaplan's theology: beyond supernaturalism
  • Salvation: the goal of religion
  • Salvation embodied: the vehicle of mitzvot
  • Mordecai the pious: Kaplan and Heschel
  • The law: halakhah and ethics
  • Kaplan and the problem of evil: cutting the gordian knot
  • Appendix: "Thirteen wants" of Mordecai Kaplan reconstructed.