- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 Benamozegh’s Texts and Contexts: Morocco, the Risorgimento, and the Disputed Manuscript
- Chapter 1 The Moroccan World of a Livornese Jew
- Chapter 2 An Italian Jewish Patriot in the Risorgimento
- Chapter 3 The Banned Author and the Oriental Publisher
- Chapter 4 Expanding His Readership
- Chapter 5 The Afterlives of a Manuscript
- Part II Universalism as an Index of Jewish Modernity
- Chapter 6 Situating Benamozegh in the Debate on Jewish Universalism
- Chapter 7 Normativity and Inclusivity in Modernity
- Chapter 8 Cosmopolitanism and Universalism
- Chapter 9 Universalism in Particularism
- Part III Beyond Binaries: Kabbalah as a Tool for Modernity
- Chapter 10 Kabbalah
- Chapter 11 Beyond Dualism
- Chapter 12 Kabbalah as Politics
- Part IV Past Enmity: Modes of Interreligious Engagement and Jewish Self-Affirmation
- Chapter 13 Religious Enmity and Tolerance Reconsidered
- Chapter 14 “The Iron Crucible” and Loci of Religious Contact
- Chapter 15 Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions
- Chapter 16 Modes of Interreligious Engagement
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- Another Modernity
- Author(s):
Clémence Boulouque
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
HOW DID A RELATIVELY little-known nineteenth-century Livornese rabbi who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for unity among religions come to influence theological and political agendas across a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel? What does it say about interfaith encounters that his efforts to work toward unity among monotheisms have fueled such irreconcilable stances? And how can an idiosyncratic figure who sought a means of overcoming religious divisions—one based on Judaism and, more specifically, on a Jewish theology of Christianity—illuminate broader problems of Jewish modernity? And be coopted by a postmodern thinker like psychiatrist Jacques Lacan? These are a few of the questions raised by the life, work, and legacy of Elia Benamozegh (1823–1900)....
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 Benamozegh’s Texts and Contexts: Morocco, the Risorgimento, and the Disputed Manuscript
- Chapter 1 The Moroccan World of a Livornese Jew
- Chapter 2 An Italian Jewish Patriot in the Risorgimento
- Chapter 3 The Banned Author and the Oriental Publisher
- Chapter 4 Expanding His Readership
- Chapter 5 The Afterlives of a Manuscript
- Part II Universalism as an Index of Jewish Modernity
- Chapter 6 Situating Benamozegh in the Debate on Jewish Universalism
- Chapter 7 Normativity and Inclusivity in Modernity
- Chapter 8 Cosmopolitanism and Universalism
- Chapter 9 Universalism in Particularism
- Part III Beyond Binaries: Kabbalah as a Tool for Modernity
- Chapter 10 Kabbalah
- Chapter 11 Beyond Dualism
- Chapter 12 Kabbalah as Politics
- Part IV Past Enmity: Modes of Interreligious Engagement and Jewish Self-Affirmation
- Chapter 13 Religious Enmity and Tolerance Reconsidered
- Chapter 14 “The Iron Crucible” and Loci of Religious Contact
- Chapter 15 Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions
- Chapter 16 Modes of Interreligious Engagement
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture