Contemporary American Judaism

Description:

No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the individual spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living in all corners of the United States. A pulpit rabbi and American Jew, Kaplan follows this religious individualism from its postwar suburban roots to the hippie revolution of the 1960s and the multiple postmodern identities of today. From Hebrew tattooing to Jewish Buddhist meditation, his book describes the remaking of historical tradition in ways that channel multiple ethnic and national identities.

subjects: Judaism,  Jews,  Social conditions,  History,  Identity,  Spiritual life,  Judaïsme,  Conditions sociales,  Jodendom,  Juifs,  Judentum,  Soziale Situation,  Identität,  Vie spirituelle,  11.26 movements within Judaism,  Fiction, historical,  Taiwan, fiction,  Jews, united states, social conditions,  Jews, identity,  Spiritual life, judaism,  Judaism, history

Places: United States

Times: 20th century,  21st century