The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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.