- 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
Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions
Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions
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- (p.173) Chapter 15 Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions
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- Another Modernity
- Author(s):
Clémence Boulouque
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- Stanford University Press
Chapter 15 details Benamozegh’s worldview and the inextricable link between theology and the politics of identity underlying it. The Jewish theology of other religions that he proposed mostly reimagined a relationship with Christianity, one where the tradition of a minority, namely Judaism, could be used to overcome the flaws of the dominant culture. But its tone also raises questions regarding the nature and purpose of religious dialogue: self-reformation or reformation of other religions. Because of its confident (and at times triumphant) tone, it is also a statement about Jewish self-perception in modernity and corresponds to a more assertive turn in Jewish thought at the turn of the century.
Keywords: religious dialogue, theology, self-assertion, self-reformation
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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