The Future of Judaism in America
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-24989-1 (ISBN)
This book explores the state of the American Jewish world in the early 21st century, after decades of accelerating change that has transformed it and all other religious groups in the United States. It reveals a community in an unparalleled state of flux grappling with a society in which religious identity is more and more considered an individual choice, rather than an inheritance, and where fewer adults feel impelled to identify with any religious tradition at all.
In chapters written by leading experts, the book examines the community's evolving demographics, the direction of the principal denominational movements, contemporary religious trends, interactions with other American religious communities and engagements in the country's secular politics. This text uniquely covers all these aspects of Judaism in America making it appealing to students and researchers in such fields as the sociology of religion, Judaism, and American history.
JEROME A. CHANES is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies of the City University of New York Graduate Center and is internationally recognized for his expertise in the arenas of Jewish communal affairs and organizational structures. He is the author of four books and more than 150 articles, reviews, book-chapters, and encyclopedia entries on Jewish communal issues, history, and arts and letters. He has taught at Barnard College, the City University of New York system, Yeshiva University, and Harvard University, and was the national affairs director of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council and Associate Executive Director of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. He was for many years a regular columnist and book reviewer for the Forward and the New York Jewish Week. MARK SILK is professor of religion in public life at Trinity College in Hartford and founding executive director of Trinity’s Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught at Harvard, edited the Boston Review and was a reporter, editorial writer and columnist on the Atlanta Journal Constitution for nine years before joining the faculty of Trinity in 1996. His books include Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II (1986), Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion (1995), and, with Andrew Walsh, of One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics (2008). He also served as co-editor of each volume of the eight volume Religion by Region book series sponsored by the Greenberg Center, as well as on five volumes of the Future of Religion in America series published by Columbia University Press and Springer (2016 to present).
Acknowledgements.- Series Editors' Introduction: The Future of Religion in America (Mark Silk and Andrew H. Walsh).- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Future of Judaism in America: Judaism Is Now Choice (Jerome A. Chanes).- Chapter 2. The Future of American Jewish Denominations (Lawrence Grossman).- Chapter 3. Perspectives from Demography and Geography (Ira M. Sheskin).- Chapter 4. Renewal (Shaul Magid and Jerome A. Chanes).- Chapter 5. Women's Active Partnership in Revitalizing American Judaism (Sylvia Barack Fishman).- Chapter 6. Jewish Political Involvement (Marc D. Stern).- Chapter 7. American Jews, Judaism and Other Faith Communities (Eugene Korn).- Chapter 8. Conclusion (Jerome A. Chanes and Mark Silk).- Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies of Jews in Society |
| Zusatzinfo | XVII, 225 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 523 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | American Jewish Demography • American Jewish History • Chosen wars • conservative judaism • Haredi Judaism • Jewish american paradox • Jewish Public Policy • Jewish renewal • Judaism in contemporary America • Modern Judaism • New American Judaism • Reform Judaism • Studying the jewish future |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-24989-5 / 3031249895 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-24989-1 / 9783031249891 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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