Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World 0814333958, 9780814333952

Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World 0814333958, 9780814333952

In Mediating Modernity, contemporary Jewish scholars pay tribute to Michael A. Meyer, scholar of German-Jewish history a

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The Disfigured Face: Traditional Natural Law and Its Encounter with Modernity 9780823292844

The central argument of this book is that the traditional notion of Natural Law has almost disappeared from the ethical

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Jewish Faith in a Changing World: A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy 9781618110886

Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Mai

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Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia 9780520931299

A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsari

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Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia 9780520208308, 9780520931299, 9780520242326

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Death by migration: Europe's encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century 9780521389228, 9780521371629, 9780511995163

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The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity 0465052932, 9780465052936

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Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions 9780231879781

A collection of four Bampton Lectures given in the fall of 1961in the Low Memorial Library of Columbia University on dec

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The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity 9780226581118

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers,

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Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination (Religion in the Modern World) 1538114992, 9781538114995

This book aims to bring Muslim theology into the present day. Rather than a purely academic pursuit, Modern Muslim Theol

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