Democratizing Judaism

Cohen, Jack, 1919-

Democratizing Judaism [electronic resource] / Jack J. Cohen. - Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010. - 301 p. - Reference library of Jewish intellectual history . - Reference library of Jewish intellectual history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mordecai M. Kaplan reexamined -- Theorist and activist -- The rational mystic -- Toward a theology of experience -- Religious education for democracy -- On the theology of election -- Other critics -- Naturalism and supernaturalism -- Ethical values in the thought of Bertrand Russell and Mordecai M. Kaplan -- Reconstructionism reexamined and applied -- Reconstructionism revisited -- A state with a Jewish majority -- The concept of a Jewish state -- What is a Zionist state? -- The Western Wall -- A theology of ethics -- Is this the meaning of my life? -- A rational approach to the idea of God -- When a judge steps off the bench.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781618110916 (electronic bk.)




Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983.


Reconstructionist Judaism.
Democracy--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Zionism.


Electronic books.

BM197.7 / .C64 2010

296.8/344092