Defining JudaismA Reader
Edited by: Aaron W. Hughes
Series: Critical Categories in the Study of Religion Hardback Price £70.00/$110.00 Paperback Price £16.99/$27.95 |    |
Description
Defining Judaism illustrates the range of theoretical and practical issues involved in defining Judaism for the purposes of comparative and historical studies. The book is divided into three overlapping sections that all deal, in various ways, with the configuration of “Judaism” and how this configuration relates to other historical and/or disciplinary contexts. Texts range from historical attempts to define individual “Jews” to imagining Judaism as a religion like other religions to modern and post-modern attempts to decenter these earlier definitions. The texts anthologized here are put into context by a comprehensive general introduction. Although all of the texts collected here are interested in defining Judaism, the theories underpinning their definitions are relevant to anyone interested in the academic study of religion.
Defining Judaism illustrates the range of theoretical and practical issues involved in defining Judaism for the purposes of comparative and historical studies. The book is divided into three overlapping sections that all deal, in various ways, with the configuration of “Judaism” and how this configuration relates to other historical and/or disciplinary contexts. Texts range from historical attempts to define individual “Jews” to imagining Judaism as a religion like other religions to modern and post-modern attempts to decenter these earlier definitions. The texts anthologized here are put into context by a comprehensive general introduction. Although all of the texts collected here are interested in defining Judaism, the theories underpinning their definitions are relevant to anyone interested in the academic study of religion.
Contents
Editor’s Introduction: Judaism, Judaisms, Jewish: Toward Redefining Traditional Taxa
I. Historical and Chronological Definitions
Orientation
1. Saadya Gaon
Selection form The Book of Beliefs and Opinions
2. Maimonides
Thirteen Articles of Faith
3. The Assembly of Jewish Notables
Answers to Napoleon
4. Abraham Geiger
Selection from Judaism and Its History
5. Judith Plaskow
Setting the Problem, Laying the Ground
II. The Contours of Judaism
6. Daniel Boyarin
Apartheid Comparative Religion in the Second Century: Some Theory and a Case Study
7. Steven M. Wasserstrom
Who Were the Jews: Problems in Profiling the Jewish Community Under Early Islam
8. Miriam Bodian
The Rejudaization of “the Nation”
9. Gershom Scholem
Jews and Germans
III. Re-Definitions
10. Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
The Savage in Judaism
11. Jonathan Boyarin
Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eight Street Shul
12. Aaron W. Hughes
Expanding the Canon of Jewish Philosophy: Towards an Appreciation of Genre
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845536088 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845536084 |
| Price (Hardback) | £70.00/$110.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845536096 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845536091 |
| Price (Paperback) | £16.99/$27.95 |
| Publication Date | May 2010 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Size | 246 x 174mm |
| Readership | undergraduates |
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