Judaism and collective life : self and community in the religious kibbutz /
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| Author / Creator: | Fishman, Aryei. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (148 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in religion ; 1 Routledge studies in religion ; 1. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12011344 |
| Summary: | Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism.<br> The book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European counterparts, who successfully developed religious kibbutz life. Employing sociological concepts and methods, the author examines the correlations between two evolutionary phases in kibbutz development and two modes of Judaism: the rational Halakhic and the emotive Hassidic modes. In doing this, he explores the relationship between two diverse dispositions towards the divinity - the transcendent and the immanent - and two diverse modes of the self and their related communities.<br> This innovative and insightful work will be of essential interest to scholars of the sociology of religion, Jewish studies, modern Jewish history and Israel's national history, and will also interest those more broadly engaged with theology and religious studies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (148 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203217373 9780203217375 9780415289665 0415289661 1138008648 9781138008649 1134439229 9781134439225 1280280433 9781280280436 9786610280438 6610280436 |