The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Scult, Mel

The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan [Texte imprimé] / Mel Scult - Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, cop. 2014 - 1 vol. (XIX-336 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm - The modern Jewish experience . - The Modern Jewish experience (Indiana University Press, Bloomington) .

Bibliogr. p. 325-327

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

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Reconstructionist Judaism

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