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Postsecular Jewish Thought: Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, Leo Strauss

Religions
This article traces the emergence of what is nowadays called “postsecular” religion from German-Jewish philosophy of the 1920s and 1930s. The three different cases of Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, and Leo Strauss impel us to pay particular ...
Philipp von Wussow
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David Patterson, Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) [PDF]

, 2017
This is a critical review of David Patterson's book Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (2015). In this review, I present the author's new explanation of the roots of anti-Semitism, which he finds in the anti-Semite's desire to become like God ...
Tremblay, Frederic
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Levinas and the Anticolonial

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2017
Over the last two decades, the various attempts to “radicalize” Levinas have resulted in two interesting and often separated debates: one the one hand, there is the debate regarding the relationship between Levinas and colonialism and racism, and on the ...
Patrick D. Anderson
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Ritual as Mnemonic: Weaving Jewish Law with Symbolic Networks in Likkutei Halakhot by R. Nathan Sternhartz

Religions
Ritual has long served as a central axis of religious life, not only structuring practice but also transmitting meaning across generations. This article offers a new perspective on how Hasidic thought reconfigures the medieval Jewish genre of ta‘amei ha ...
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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The Idea of Time and the Evolution of History. Thoughts on a Dialectic in Spanish Medieval Judaism

Cauriensia
From its origin, Israel has been determined by history. The Jewish people was shaped historically as such around the Torah. However, Jewish history itself witnessed in its bosom the birth of spiritual experiences that go beyond historical and ...
José Antonio Fernández López
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Menorah Review (No. 32, Fall, 1994) [PDF]

, 1994
A Jewish View of Christianity: Recognition Without Surrender -- The Evolving Jewish West -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Confessions of a Conservative Scholar -- Biblical Perspectives on the Human Quest -- Psalm -- Book ...

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Spinoza and Judaism in the French Context: The Case of Milner's Le Sage Trompeur [PDF]

, 2020
Jean-Claude Milner’s Le sage trompeur (2013), a controversial recent piece of French Spinoza literature, remains regrettably understudied in the English-speaking world.
Stetter, Jack
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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