Jews and the American Religious Landscape 9780231541497, 9780231178266

179 92 3MB

English Pages 249 Year 2016

Jews and the American Religious Landscape
9780231541497, 9780231178266

0 0 0
Like this paper and download? You can publish your own PDF file online for free in a few minutes! Sign Up

Jews and the American Religious Landscape explores major complementary facets of American Judaism and Jewish life throug

116 22 953KB Read more

While pundits boil down elections to a choice between Democrat and Republican, The American Political Landscape explains

142 119 19MB Read more

How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American culture In nineteenth-cen

108 8 44MB Read more

An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematical

161 11 1MB Read more

Proposes questions around the problems confronting American Jews shortly after World War II. Identifies the strategic pr

122 9 5MB Read more

Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of those who do not belong? Are the very religious more likely to be altruist

171 66 685KB Read more

Co-publication with Magnes Press The book deals with the formative years of Israel’s evolving symbolic landscape (1904

144 26 3MB Read more

Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather tha

146 17 2MB Read more

Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of those who do not belong? Are the very religious more likely to be altruist

151 98 8MB Read more

The First Amendment merely preserved the political status quo in matters of religion, says Steven Smith. America's

125 94 1MB Read more