1st Edition
Deceptive Images Towards a Redefinition of American Judaism
By Charles S. Liebman
Copyright 1988
134 Pages
by
Routledge
134 Pages
by
Routledge
134 Pages
by
Routledge
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Deceptive Images is a profoundly thoughtful effort by a social scientist—who is a participant observer in American Jewish life—to come to terms with his concerns about how American Jews and Judaism have been studied, and his sensitivity to the policy implications of such studies. Liebman writes about what he cares deeply about; as a social scientist he is able to use concepts and theories in... Read more
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The Sociology of Religion and the Study ofAmerican Jews
3 Religious Extremism
4 Orthodoxy Faces Modernity
5 Traditionalists and Transformationists
6 The Quality of Jewish Life
7 Reflections on Social Science and Jewish Public Policy
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Charles S. Liebman
