Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Carmel U. Chiswick, Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 234 pp.
View through CrossRef
This chapter reviews the book Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition (2014), by Carmel U. Chiswick. In Judaism in Transition, Chiswick examines the evolving nature of Judaism, primarily in America but also in Israel. Using the principles of cost-benefit analysis, Chiswick argues that economic choices influence participation in all areas of Jewish life. Focusing on historical and current choices such as Jewish education and synagogue membership, she not only highlights the role of economics in the time-allocation decisions of Jews, but also stimulates thinking on these issues for other religious and cultural groups. Chiswick makes a distinction between the “Great Tradition” that defines Judaism and the “Small Traditions” of Jews living in particular cultural contexts.
Title: Carmel U. Chiswick, Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 234 pp.
Description:
This chapter reviews the book Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition (2014), by Carmel U.
Chiswick.
In Judaism in Transition, Chiswick examines the evolving nature of Judaism, primarily in America but also in Israel.
Using the principles of cost-benefit analysis, Chiswick argues that economic choices influence participation in all areas of Jewish life.
Focusing on historical and current choices such as Jewish education and synagogue membership, she not only highlights the role of economics in the time-allocation decisions of Jews, but also stimulates thinking on these issues for other religious and cultural groups.
Chiswick makes a distinction between the “Great Tradition” that defines Judaism and the “Small Traditions” of Jews living in particular cultural contexts.
Related Results
Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism, 200 BCE-CE 200
Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism, 200 BCE-CE 200
Belief in resurrection of the dead became one of the most adamant conceptual claims of Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. This book provides a focused analysis of the gradual emerg...
Shaul Magid, Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity and the Construction of Modern Judaism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 271 pp.
Shaul Magid, Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity and the Construction of Modern Judaism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 271 pp.
This chapter reviews the book Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity and the Construction of Modern Judaism (2015), by Shaul Magid. In Hasidism Incarnate, Magid shows how incar...
Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels
Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels
This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to f...
Introduction
Introduction
The Introduction outlines why it is so important to consider the question of what Judaism is from a non-Christian, non-Western perspective. This perspective might lead someone to a...
Tradition and Development
Tradition and Development
Tradition as source of religious knowledge had been obscured since the Reformation by the Protestant claim that the Bible, and only the Bible, was the source of Christian knowledge...
Hermann Cohen
Hermann Cohen
This book is the first complete intellectual biography of Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), the only one to cover all his major philosophical and Jewish writings. It pays special attentio...
Causes and Controversies, 1914–1917
Causes and Controversies, 1914–1917
This chapter first covers Cohen’s writings during the First World War, when he wrote propaganda for the German cause. These years also mark the beginning of Cohen’s quarrel with th...