The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (Cambridge Companions to Religion)

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AMERICAN JUDAISM......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 12
Chronology......Page 16
Glossary......Page 22
List of Abbreviations......Page 27
Introduction......Page 28
1 Preservation and Innovation: Judaism in America, 1654–1880......Page 48
2 American Judaism, 1880–1945......Page 68
3 Trends in American Judaism from 1945 to the present......Page 86
4 Jewish religious denominations......Page 104
5 Patterns of American Jewish religious behavior......Page 124
6 Thinking Judaism through: Jewish theology in America......Page 140
7 The essence of American Judaism......Page 156
8 Contemporary Jewish education......Page 168
9 The place of Judaism in American Jewish identity......Page 192
10 The Holocaust in American Jewish life......Page 210
11 Long-distance nationalism: American Jews, Zionism, and Israel......Page 232
12 Life cycle rituals: Rites of passage in American Judaism......Page 248
13 Choosing lives: Evolving gender roles in American Jewish families......Page 260
14 The body and sexuality in American Jewish culture......Page 276
15 The American Jewish urban experience......Page 294
16 “Sacred survival” revisited: American Jewish civil religion in the new millennium......Page 306
17 Judaism and democracy in America......Page 322
18 The economics of American Judaism......Page 338
19 American Judaism and interfaith dialogue......Page 350
20 American midrash: Urban Jewish writing and the reclaiming of Judaism......Page 368
21 Recent trends in new American Jewish music......Page 386
22 The visual arts in the American Jewish experience......Page 404
23 American Judaism in the twenty-first century......Page 420
Afterword The Study of American Judaism: A Look Ahead......Page 440
Further Reading......Page 446
Index......Page 456