an introduction to modern Jewish thought Batnitzky, Leora Faye 1966- creator text bibliography nju Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press c2011 2011 monographic eng

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x, 211 p. ; 24 cm. Introduction -- Pt. I: Judaism as a religion. Chapt. 1: Modern Judaism and the invention of Jewish religion -- Chapt. 2: Religion as history: religious reform and the invention of modern Orthodoxy -- Chapt. 3: Religion as reason and the separation of religion from politics -- Chapt. 4: Religion as experience: the German-Jewish Renaissance -- Chapt. 5: Jewish religion after the Holocaust -- Pt. II. : Detaching Judaism from religion. Chapt. 6: The irrelevance of religion and the emergence of the Jewish individual -- Chapt. 7: The transformation of tradition and the invention of Jewish culture -- Chapt. 8: The rejection of Jewish religion and the birth of Jewish nationalism -- Chapt. 9: Jewish religion in the United States -- Conclusion. Leora Batnitzky. Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index. Judaism History Philosophy BM157 .B38 2011 296.09 9780691130729 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691130728 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780691160139 2011012703 DLC 110323 20160308092653.0 16702919