Antimodernism and Orthodox Judaism's Heretical Imperative: An American Religious Counterpoint
This article argues that the case of religious authority within Orthodox Judaism is an important counterexample to the broader and understudied developments in American religion during the final decades of the twentieth century. Using an array of untapped primary sources and drawing on themes addres...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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[2020]
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| Στο/Στη: |
Religion and American culture
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 30, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 237-272 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
USA
/ Ορθόδοξος Ιουδαϊσμός (μοτίβο)
/ Ενδοομάδα
/ Παρακολούθηση
/ Αποστασία
/ Fremdgruppe
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AD Κοινωνιολογία της θρησκείας, Πολιτική της θρησκείας ΒΗ Ιουδαϊσμός KBQ Βόρεια Αμερική ZC Πολιτική |
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| Σύνοψη: | This article argues that the case of religious authority within Orthodox Judaism is an important counterexample to the broader and understudied developments in American religion during the final decades of the twentieth century. Using an array of untapped primary sources and drawing on themes addressed by scholars of American religious history and modern Jewish history, this article demonstrates how Orthodox Jewish elites used “approximational heresies” to police their faith community. In so doing, Orthodox leaders furnished “indicators” of apostasy that were unknown in previous epochs and served to stand in for traditional types that proved otherwise insufficient to counteract new trends in modern life and culture. Orthodox Jewish “antimodernism” was animated by a need to demonstrate what was “in” and what was “out” of bounds as well as by the emergence of a triumphalism that was unique among American faiths. Likewise, the rank-and-file abided because they either agreed with these measures or feared becoming “outsiders.” This outlook contrasts with the attitudes of other religious groups—on the “left” and the “right”—that absorbed a spirit of “inclusiveness” and, therefore, eschewed heresy hunting and the boldness evinced by Orthodox elites during this period. The article concludes that the pervasiveness of this counterculture among the Orthodox Jewish community was so powerful that it, counterintuitively, introduced the strategies of the antimodernists to the American-acculturated, so-called Modern Orthodox community. |
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| ISSN: | 1533-8568 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Religion and American culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/rac.2020.8 |