Beyond the Secular-Religion Divide: Judaism and the New Secularity

In his 2018 survey of twenty-first-century American Judaism entitled The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice their Judaism Today, Jack Wertheimer references a 2015 Pew Research study that presupposes the secular-religion binary as the analytical metric for its determination that both the America...

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Main Author: Rashkover, Randi (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2024
In: Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 4
Further subjects:B Secularity
B Secularization
B orthodox feminism
B denominationalism
B fact-value
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