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Subject(s)

• Judaism—21st century [Browse]

Editor

• Bell, Dean Phillip, 1967- [Browse]
• Fraiman, Keren Eva, 1978- [Browse]

Series

Routledge Handbooks in Religion. [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century is a cutting-edge volume that addresses central questions and issues animating Judaism, Jewish identity, and Jewish society in a global, integrated, and forward-looking way. It introduces readers to the complexity of Judaism as it has developed and continues to develop throughout the 21st century through the prism of three contemporary sets of issues: identities and geographies; structures and power; and knowledge and performances. Within these sections, international contributors examine central issues, topics, and debates, including: Individual and collective identity; globalization and localization; Jewish demography; diversity, denominations, and pluralism; interreligious relations; political orientations; community organization; family and gender; the Bible and Talmud today; Jewish philosophy and authority in Jewish thought; digital Judaism; antisemitism; Jewish spirituality and rituals; memory; language; religious education; material culture, literature, music, and art; approaches to the environment; and contemporary Zionism and Israel. The Handbook also includes an extensive bibliography to help orient readers to the most important and leading work in the field. The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and Jewish studies. It will also be useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history, as well as Jewish professionals and lay leaders"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Intro
• THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF JUDAISM IN THE 21st CENTURY
• Part I Identities and Geographies
• Part II Structures and Power
• Part III Knowledge and Performance
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Who Is a Jew in the 21st Century? The Fractalization of Jewish Identity
• 2 The Polarizing Politics of Peoplehood: Judaism and Collective Identity in the 21st Century
• 3 The Future of Jewish Demography
• 4 Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Israeli Society
• 5 Hebrew and Jewish Diaspora Languages
• 6 We Are All Jews: The Jewish Other and the Other as Jew in Sartre, Levinas, and Blanchot
• 7 Powerful and Powerless: Jews, Government, and Race in Contemporary America
• 8 Israel: Internal, Regional, and International Issues and Challenges
• 9 Memory, Memorialization, and the Shoah after "the End of History"
• 10 The Institutionalization of American Jewry
• 11 Economics and American Judaism in the 21st Century
• 12 Transmuted Chosenness: "The Jewish Family" as Functional Religion in the US
• 13 Gender Matters: Intermarried Jewish Men, Identity, and Parenting in an Age of Pluralism
• 14 As If Forced by a Demon: Traditional Orthodox and Sexual Modesty Codes and Modern Times
• 15 The Bible in the 21st Century
• 16 The Talmud Today
• 17 Twenty-First-Century Rituals and Customs
• 18 A Digital Revolution? Jewish Sacred Literature in the 21st Century
• 19 Twenty-First-Century Jewish Canons
• 20 God, Covenant, and Authority
• 21 New Horizons of Revelation on the Axis of 21st-Century Jewish Theology
• 22 Jewish Life and Planet Earth in the 21st Century
• 23 The Sounds of 21st-Century Judaism
• 24 Jewish Literature and Jews and Literature
• 25 Looking Jewish in Century 21
• Bibliography
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ISBN

• 1-00-310827-X
• 1-000-85032-3
• 1-003-10827-X
• 1-000-85036-6

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