The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe [Texte imprimé] / Shmuel Feiner ; translated by Chaya Naor

Titre original en langue hébreu translitéré en caractères latins

Index

Bibliogr. p. 293-316

Sins and doubts -- Pleasures and liberation from religious supervision -- Temptations of fashion and passion -- The mystical sect: subversive Sabbateans -- The rationalist sect: neo-Karaites and deists -- Providence is tested: secularization on the rise in the 1760s -- The supremacy of nature: deists on the margins -- The emergence of the new world -- Scandals and rebellions -- Replacing Mosaic laws with laws of freedom -- On the decline of Judaism: the last decade -- Soon our faith will be lost: deists and believers