Mordecai Kaplan's Thought in a Postmodern Age

by Breslauer, Daniel S.

• ISBN13: 9781555409913
• ISBN10: 1555409911
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: University of South Florida

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Mordecai Kaplan as Postmodernist	p. 3
The Crisis of American Democracy	p. 37
Mordecai Kaplan and American Democracy
Mordecai Kaplan and American Judaism	p. 61
Interpretation and Pluralism in America	p. 83
Kaplan's Realistic Utopianism	p. 97
Judaism's Contribution to Democracy
Belief in God and American Democracy	p. 127
Education and American Religion	p. 155
Progress and American Religion	p. 177
The Survival of Judaism in Democracy
Freedom in Jewish Worship and Prayer	p. 201
Interpreting the Jewish Tradition	p. 227
Salvation and Jewish Identity	p. 251
Kaplan for the Postmodern Age
Kaplan Beyond Rationalism	p. 279
Kaplan, Mysticism and Postmodernism	p. 305
Index	p. 321
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