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In Search of the Religiosity in Religion: Sacred Thought, Sacred Action Revisited - Softcover

Shechter, Jack

 
9781098337971: In Search of the Religiosity in Religion: Sacred Thought, Sacred Action Revisited
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1098337972 ISBN 13: 9781098337971
Verlag: BookBaby, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

One of the major contributions to Judaism in our time by Martin Buber is the distinction he stressed between "religion" and "religiosity." Religion is the institutional, carefully structured, formal aspects of the faith community containing established doctrine and mandated action. Religiosity is the inner meaning, the irreducible spirit, the essence of the doctrine and practices of the faith community, that which constitutes the essential purpose of the institutional structure. Thus, in Buber's landmark unpacking of the life and literature of Hasidism, he pointed out that what the tzaddikim (spiritual leaders) considered decisive in the observance of religious ritual was the intent and spirit, the aim of the action, the inner purpose of the panoply of practices the faithful were engaged in. Each person was obliged to unite action with its purpose and thus develop wholeness as a truly religious personality.

This book is designed to "excavate," as it were, the "religiosity" embedded in a selection of Judaism's faith associations and religious practices.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

For two decades, Jack Shechter, Ph.D., served as Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Dean of the Department of Continuing Education―renamed The Whizen Center for Continuing Education―at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University). Prior to his tenure at the University of Judaism, he served as Executive Director of the New England Region of the United Synagogue of America, followed by a decade as the Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel in Pittsburgh. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary and received the Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and is the author of The Land of Israel: Its Theological Dimensions (2010) and Journey of a Rabbi (2014), both published by the University Press of America, as well as The Idea of Monotheism: The Evolution of a Foundational Concept (2018), Hamilton Books.

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Verlag
BookBaby
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1098337972
ISBN 13 
9781098337971
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
392
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