"A Higher and Purer Shape": Kaufmann Kohler's Jewish Orientalism and the Construction of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
This article uses the case of Kaufmann Kohler (1843-1926), an intellectual and institutional leader of American Reform Judaism, to explore the relationship between Orientalism and the category of religion in nineteenth-century America. Recent scholarship has shown that the lived religion of nineteen...
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Religion and American culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 326-360 |
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