Contemporary American Judaism : transformation and renewal /
No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the individual spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living in all corners of the United States. A pulpit rabbi and American Jew, Kap...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2009.
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Table of Contents:
- A historical overview from 1945
- The reengagement with spirituality
- The rise and fall of American Jewish denominations
- Facing the collapse of the intermarriage stigma
- Inclusivity as a social value
- Radical responses to the suburban experience
- The popularization of Jewish mystical outreach
- Herculean efforts at synagogue renewal
- Conclusion: the future of Judaism in America
- Afterword / Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.