- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 336 pages) : portrait.
- Series Statement
- The modern Jewish experience
- Uniform Title
- Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013019522
- OCLC
- ssj0001002342
- Author
Scult, Mel.
- Title
The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan [electronic resource] / Mel Scult.
- Imprint
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2014]
- Series
The modern Jewish experience
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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