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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 33 - Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750 (Hardcover)
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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 33 - Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750 (Hardcover)
Series: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 33
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Following tremendous advances in recent years in the study of
religious belief, this volume adopts a fresh understanding of
Jewish religious life in Poland. Approaches deriving from the
anthropology, history, phenomenology, psychology, and sociology of
religion have replaced the methodologies of social or political
history that were applied in the past, offering fascinating new
perspectives. The well-established interest in hasidism continues,
albeit from new angles, but topics that have barely been considered
before are well represented here too. Women's religious practice
gains new prominence, and a focus on elites has given way to a
consideration of the beliefs and practices of ordinary people.
Reappraisals of religious responses to secularization and
modernity, both liberal and Orthodox, offer more nuanced insights
into this key issue. Other research areas represented here include
the material history of Jewish religious life in eastern Europe and
the shift of emphasis from theology to praxis in the search for the
defining quality of religious experience. The contemporary
reassessments in this volume, with their awareness of emerging
techniques that have the potential to extract fresh insights from
source materials both old and new, show how our understanding of
what it means to be Jewish is continuing to expand.
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